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BATTLE KLA(; DESIGNED BY 
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BATTLE FLA(; ADOPTED B-S THE CoN- 
KEDEKATE CONGKESS IN 1863. 



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HISTORY 



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UiAited Confederate Veterar\s' Revinion^ 

1895. 



Patriotic Poems, War Songs, Romantic Incidents, 
blographicaiv and historical sketches. 



EDITED BY 



WILLIAM BLEDSOE PHILPOTT, 



ILLUSTRATED. 



Houston, Texas : 

Sponsor Souvenir Company. 

1895. 




Entered according- to the act of Cong-ress, in the year 
1895, by William Bledsoe Philpott, for Sponsor Souvenir 
Company, in the office of the lyibrarian of Cong-ress, at 
Washing-ton. 



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PREFf\C&. 

^THIS volume has been very hastily prepared, and 
J- approaches but approximately the conception of the 
author, who hopes in another edition to more nearly realize his 
ideal. 

The Album is its own excuse for its existence. 

The omission of any U. C. V. Officers, or of any Sponsor 
of a U. C. V. Camp, the editor beg-s to say is no fault of his, but 
must be attributed to the tardiness or indifference of those 
not represented. 

For valuable assistance in compilation, I am larg-ely in- 
debted to my friend and associate. Professor Robert F. Smith of 
the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College ; and I desire 
to divide with him any measure of praise which may be accorded 
the work. 

Mr. S. A. Cunning-ham, editor of the Confederate Vetera?!, 
of Nashville, Tennessee, has placed me under oblig-ations for 
numerous courtesies for which I desire to to thank him sincerely. 

For appreciated courtesies, I also desire to thank : Gen- 
eral George Moorman, Mrs. Mollie Moore Davis and Dr. Joseph 
Jones, of New Orleans; Editor R. M. Johnson, Dr. H. V. Phil- 
pott, Dr. E. P. Daviss, Mr. B. R. Warner and Mrs. Rosine 
Ryan, of Houston ; Mr. Guy A. Collett, of Austin, Texas ; and 
Mr. Foster Forte, of Waco, Texas. 

Credit is due the publishers, the Terry Engraving Com- 
pany of Columbus, Ohio, for beauty of illustration and excellence 
of typographical work. 



The Editor. 



September 10, 1895, 

Houston, Texas. 



iS/^dicati 



toil. 

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wal 4 aial'na5, id eiieUa ad an nuinu-ic uiuiitc la live uiltiic, lieoutij, aua lalltelidDi oi ifie 
^outiiclu women, luliede acedd oj, diu)iia Uu|, meicit, autl Unina kinanHi in timed oi luo't 
and caluane, can ueuc't uc adetiuateUi taid in dona ol dto'ai. 

Jo {^idd (^lVvm« ^l. ^ao^id, ^^)voiuu to \L ^o.ifed.^ate 91'etelau ad {^iKdd 
"'^lOmuie" a)auid, tfie notinnedt cliila d tlie alcat (xojiicaeUitc ($-Lultain, tkt [AAiztd 
tlaufltite'i al the @on|e((e'iacT|, tiie emuodnnent (\i tlioic twoniauti| alaced condkicuoud m the lull 
<iaualiteVd <^I tne (Southland, lulucli iiauc ma<(e tlie ©otitli'ion tfic aaltaut, cnivauoud, <ie'nt^c= 
-man tiiat ne td, an(( tnc i^otitaeln doulie'i tlvc fcniaatiiedt tluit euel d'tciu- diuom in acioide 
oi (lome and couatlii, tfuA votume id modt led xci'TJiUln and loxunfilii dedicated. 

<^Mlam pUm /luf.[i«tt. 




Miss Varina A. Davis, ("Winnie" Davis) 

"davghter of the confederacy."' 



5o I^c Bcf oFfeg tofedcmk^ofdim 





Stonewall Jackson. Jos. E. Jofinston. 

NOTED confederate GENERALS. 



RoBT. E. Lee. 







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"SfflE "j^UNION. 



For who could, e'en in bondage, walk the plains 
Of glorious Greece, nor feel his spirit rise 
Kindling within him? Who, with heart and eyes, 
Could walk where Liberty had been, nor see 
The shining footprints of her deity. 
Nor feel those God-like breathings in the air, 
That mutely told her spirit had been there? 

— Moore. 



HOSE young sons of the South, and there were 
thousands of them, who visited Houston during 
th.e United Confederate A'eterans' reunion of 1895, 
could nowhere have learned loftier lessons of pa- 
triotism, nowhere have seen brighter exemplars of the 
highest type of manhood; no where have spent time 
more pleasantly and profitably than in mingling with 
and listening to the men whose courage and devo- 
tion upon the field a third of a century ago won the 
plaudits of an admiring world; whose wisdom and pa- 
triotism have since built up the waste places of the 
South and caused to blossom as a garden the country 
ruined by war's devastation. 
The prime objects of the United Confederate Veterans' Association 
are the meeting and intermingling of friends and comrades of the war 
time and the preservation and promulgation of the true history of the 
causes leading up to the strife, the manner in which it was carried on 
through four bloody years, and the salient features of the succeeding 
period of reconstruction.. The historical part, to the end that succeeding 
generations of Southrons may know the reasons that animated their 
ancestors; that they may appreciate their courage upon the tented field, 
their patriotic devotion in accepting the stern decree of war, and in the 
face of mountainous obstacles, carrying the commonwealths of their 
section once again to the front rank of the sisterhood of states. The 
raisons d' etre of the organization are more fully set forth in the following 
excerpt from the constitution adopted at the Houston meeting: 




10 SPONSOR SOUVENIR AIvBUM. 

Article 1. The objects and purposes of this organization will be strictly 
social, literary, historical and benevolent. It will endeavor to unite in general 
federation all associations of Confederate veterans, soldiers and sailors, now in 
existence or hereafter to be formed; to gather authentic data for an impartial 
history of the war between the states; to preserve relics or mementoes of the 
same; to cherish the ties of friendship that should exist among men who have 
shared common dangers, common sufferings and privations; to care for the dis- 
abled and extend a helping hand to the needy; to protect the widows and the 
orphans, and to make and preserve a record of the services of every member, 
and as far as possible of those of our comrades who have preceded us in eternity. 

What more commendable object could organization have than to 
promote social intercourse among comrades whose ranks are being rap- 
idly thinned by the destroying hand of time, than to promote the truthful 
chronicling of the acts of a period of such vital importance to the life of 
the nation? For no gain, save that of pleastire; for no ambition, save that 
the truth be told! The sordid desire for financial gain and the self-wish 
for personal political preferment are so almost universally to the fore at all 
large gatherings in these days of broadening avarice and narrowing am- 
bition that it is particularly and peculiarly pleasing and refreshing to at- 
tend a meeting of men whence all stich thoughts are banished and each 
speech and action has for its object the promotion of social pleasure or 
the encouragement of patriotic endeavors. 

In its personnel the meeting was the most notable that has gath- 
ered in the South since the surrender at Appomattox, embracing the 
representative brains and bravery, sense and chivalry, of that section of 
this country which has been wont, in all its history, to hold first place in 
field and forum. The roll of those present embraced names not only 
illustriotis in battle, btit which, in the thirty years of peace that have fol- 
lowed the last sound of war's loud alarm, have been written high upon 
the reunited nation's scroll of honor. 

With such men met for such object, what wonder that the three days 
of the meeting should be full of the most intense sentimental interest and 
freely interspersed with the most electrically dramatic speech and action? 

What splendid types of men the leaders among these veterans are ! 

John B. Gordon, the soldier and courtier, the statesman and orator, 
graceful wearer of the highest honors his native state has had to bestow. 

Stephen D. Lee, able general in time of war, chivalric gentleman 
always, now giving his life to the instruction of the youth of his adopted 
state. 

Lawrence Sullivan Ross, boy commander upon the frontier, dashing 
brigadier, as knighth' a man as ever laid lance in rest, having, like 
Gordon, worthily worn the highest honors his people had to bestow^ and 
now, like Lee, giving the ripened years of his manhood to the guidance 
of the youth to that high standard of manhood of which he is the splendid 
exemplar. 



SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. 11 

Cabell, who knew only fight when the foe was afield ; Law, who hides 
behind the modesty of a w^onian the courage of a crusader; Waul, whose 
proud boast it was that no enemy rested foot for twenty-four hours on 
Texas soil; Shelby, the bold raider, whose business was war and whose 
pleasure was fight; Evans, as gentle in peace as he was courageous in 
battle; Boone, who talked of the duty "we owe our maimed comrades" as 
though he had not been unlimbed in one of the most gallant charges 
of the great struggle — these were there, and a hundred others, distin- 
guished officers, whose lives in war and peace are fittest for the copying 
of the youth of the land. 

"Good knights and true as ever drew 
Their swords with knightly Roland, 
Or died at Sobieski's side 

For love of martyred Poland; 
Or knelt with Cromwell's Ironsides, 

Or sung with brave Gustavus, 
Or on the field of Austerlitz 

Breathed out their dying aves." 

There were also present 1)y the thousand, and no less worthy exam- 
ples of the courage and manhood of the South, the private soldiers of the 
lost cause. They were the men who, with no thought of self-advance- 
ment, with neither epaulette nor star beckoning on, fought because they 
deemed it their duty to fight, offering their lives upon a thousand battle 
fields as willingly and as cheerfully as did ever crested knight in tale of 
mediaeval romances. 

From every battle field of the war had these veterans come. 

Heroes were there who had stood upon Bull Run's successful field 
with Jackson when he asked for ten thousand men with whom to march 
into Washington; who were with Bragg at Chickamauga and Albert 
Sidney Johnston at Shiloh; who breasted the storm at Gettysburg when 
Pickett's division marched through the hail of leaden death to all but the 
topmost point of Cemetery Ridge; who refused to follow Lee at the Wil- 
derness, but who swept back (^rant's columns after their beloved com- 
mander had been forced to seek safety at the rear; who, with Joe John- 
ston, for months doggedly tlirew themselves across Sherman's pathway 
and vainly sought to obstruct his march to the sea; who fought with Ross 
and Estes, with Forrest and Hood, with Gordon and Longstreet, and 
Beauregard, and Wade Hampton, and Jeb Stuart, and the Hills, upon a 
hundred fields of bravery and blood; who, ragged and hungiy, but still 
defiant and undaunted, laid down their arms at Appomattox, and, accept- 
ing war's stern decree, returned to desolated homes and deserted firesides 
to do citizens' duty to their restored country in patriots' way. 

Well may the record of their lives be an inspiration to succeeding gen- 
erations, filling their minds with high ambition, swelling their hearts with 



12 SPONSOR SOUVENIR AI^BUM. 

a patriotic desire to carry forward the work so nobly begun, until their 
section shall be the most advanced of the whole country in all those ma- 
terial and intellectual elements that distinguish the highest civilization. 

Nor have the lessons been lost, for Avhile the sturdy sons of these 
noble sires enjoy and appreciate the enterprise and prosperity of the 
"New South," they do not forget or undervalue the glory and the chivalry 
of the old, and more than all other names, they venerate those of the men, 
living and dead, whose bloody footprints marked the path of patriotism 
irom Fort Sumter to Appomattox, whose stainless swords wrote in flaming 
characters the deathless record of a nation that was doomed to die, who, 
when all resources had failed, and to further fight would have been but 
reckless folly, accepted defeat with the same courage that had won them 
so many victories, and returned to their homes to repeat in peaceful pur- 
suits the heroic devotion to duty they had shown in war. 

There was no word said, no act done in all that great gathering, 
which smacked of perfidy to the terms upon which the Confederate sol- 
diers accepted their restoration to citizenship : nothing to which the most 
caviling critic could take exception. Every word of sorrow spoken was 
for the brave who fell in the great struggle, every sentiment expressed 
was full of a broad and patriotic spirit which took in the whole country. 
"Old Glory" was the name by which was designated the flag before whic i 
the Southern cross went down in blood, and the only sectional feeling 
expressed was in the assertion that the South had given to it the broadest 
stripes and brightest stars. A short excerpt from a speech made in the 
convention by Rev. J- William Jones, "the figliting parson" from A^irginia, 
and more nearly "unreconstructed," perhaps, than any other living Con- 
federate, shows the regard in which the flag of the common countr}' is 
held : 

"Old Glory!" said he, "why should we not march under its folds and 
glory in its lustre? It was designed from the coat of arms of our Wash- 
ington; 'The Star-Spangled Banner* was written by a Southern man, 
when Southern troops had just won a gloriotis victory on Southern soil. 
Otir Tavlor, our Scott, oiu* Jefferson Davis, Joseph E. Johnston, our 
Robert Edward Lee, our Magruder, our Albert Sidney Johnston, our 
Stonewall Jackson, our Beauregard, and others of that brilhant galaxy of 
Southern of^cers, bore it on the most glorious fields of ]\Iexico and 
planted it upon the walls of the ^lontezumas." 

And the feeling of the Confederate veteran for the highest types of 
the Northern soldier and statesman found expression in the following 
quotation from tlie eloquent oration of General Peyton A. Wise, of 
A^irginia : 

By the side of Hendrick Hudson's flowing river, just away from the busiest 
hum of the most multitudinous city, just on the skirts of a progress seemingly 



SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. 13 

the most splendid because it is the most selfish, rises apace an erection, the free 
gift, without gleaning from the public stare, of a free people, lifted above their 
progress, stealing away from their hum, to be grateful to the savior of the 
people's union. An illustrious soldier and president is to be canonized in the 
affections of a people every way composite, and the expression of that affection 
is to be a heaven-kissing monument. Let Grant's monument rise, the higher the 
better, the sooner the more fitting. He deserved it. He was not composite; he was 
genuine, unadulterated, unlimited Saxon pluck and pertinacity, fighting always 
In the splendid way in w^hich God gave him to fight for the thing he believed 
in and loved. He deserved it, even from us, if only because in the moment of his 
tirumph he mounted no triumphal car, but said, "Let us have peace," and acted 
it. But for him and dead Lincoln, what would have become of the Union, even 
after the war? 

Xo word of bitterness, no expression of regret! If any virtue out- 
shines the courage of the Southern soldier in time of war, it is his patriotic 
devotion to the whole country in time of peace. 

FIRST DAY'S SESSION. 

The reunion was in session three days, the meetings being held in a 
splendid new auditorium, designed and constructed especially to accom- 
modate large gatherings of the kind. 

It is not the purpose of this work to give a detailed account of the 
business transacted at these meetings — the daily press of the country did 
that upon each successive day, and full oilicial minutes have been ptib- 
lished. The scope of this work is intended to embrace only the most 
notable features, to put in enduring form only those scenes and incidents 
which, though full of heart-interest, have no proper place among the 
things set down in the official reports. 

The first striking incident of the opening day's session was the recep- 
tion given General Gordon, when that battle-scarred hero appeared before 
the assembled multitude for the first time. When his tall, erect form was 
seen moving across the stage, the eyes of thousands of veterans recog- 
nized him, and "Gordon!" "Gordon!" "Gordon!'' was the cry from all 
parts of the great building. Every veteran rose to his feet: hats and 
handkerchiefs were waved and the "wild rebel yell" shook the walls. For 
several minutes the ovation continued, and no stranger or alien present 
could have doubted the esteem in which the Confederate soldier held the 
man whom General Peyton A. Wise described as "that bow of promise 
to every man in the Confederate army who feared that danger might 
come too near Lee, and who has lived to show that a man surcharged 
with the most loving memories of a past that was filled with the glories 
and the Hberties of his section, may be the most orderly, the most faith- 
ful, the most devoted servant of the whole country." 

Shortly after General Gordon's arrival the meeting was called to 
order and great enthusiasm was again evoked by a welcoming speech of 



14 SPONSOR SOUVENIR AIvBUM. 

rare grace and eloquence by Governor Charles A. Culberson, the hand- 
some and boyish-looking chief executive of Texas. 

After a further speech of welcome by Hon. John T. Browne, mayor 
of the city of Houston, General Gordon rose for the response, and again 
for several minutes he had to stand in silence before such a demonstra- 
tion of devoted love as few men have ever won from their countrymen. 
When at last he was allowed to speak, he did so with that fervid eloquence, 
that grace of diction and nobility of sentiment that are so large a part 
of the man. 

The preliminary speeches over, the meeting went straight to busi- 
ness, only to be interrupted, almost at the outset, by one of the most ex- 
traordinars' scenes that was ever witnessed at any gathering. General 
Stephen D. Lee had but begun reading the report of the historical com- 
mittee, when Miss Winnie Davis, youngest daughter of Jefferson Davis, 
entered the building and was conducted to the stage. She was recognized 
instantly and the vast audience arose to greet her. It was not intended that 
she should be presented just then, but nothing else would do. and General 
Gordon, leading her to the front of the stage, said : 

"Comrades, I present to you the daughter of Jefferson Davis — the 
daughter of the Confederacy — our daughter." 

Then the applause was redoubled, and for ten minutes nothing could 
be heard save the huzzas which it seemed must surely shake down the 
walls of the building. The manner of the recipient of this magnificent 
ovation from an assemblage that numbered the leading men in war and 
peace, from the Potomac to the Rio Grande, from iNIason and Dixon's line 
to the sea, is thus described by a writer in the Houston Post : 

And how sweetly, bravely and self-composedly she bore the trying ordeal. 
Modestly, gracefully, with remarkable self-control, every moment perfect mis- 
tress of herself, she stood before that vast throng, smiling upon them, bowing 
right and left and front, stirred with emotion that showed itself in flushed cheek 
and kindling eye, enjoying the homage paid her for her dear father's sake, yet 
without the least show of self-consciousness. Those present were as completely 
captivated by the sweet graciousness of her personal bearing and demeanor as 
they had been thrilled by the sound of her name. It was a scene never to be for- 
gotten by any one who enjoyed the privilege and pleasure of witnessing it. 

The veterans could not suppress the emotion that welled up within 
them at sight of the daughter of their beloved chieftain — the child bom 
to him while the war was in progress — the daughter of the Confederacy — 
and thev clapped their hands and shouted and waved their hats and shook 
out the folds of many a bullet^scarred battle flag, "while down their 
bronzed cheeks, like rivulets through sand," the great tears coursed. 

It w^as many minutes before General Lee could proceed with the 
historical committee's report, and even when he did go on, it was amid 
the greatest confusion and frequent interruptions from those who, at the 



SPONSOR SOUVENIR AIvBUM. 15 

sight of Miss Davis, could not suppress their enthusiasm. This report 
was the most important matter considered by the meeting, for it covered 
the very kernel of the nut which the United Confederate Veterans' Asso- 
ciation was organized to crack. It was an able, elaborate and analytical 
paper, discussing in succinct language many points upon which the South 
has been made to suffer by Northern writers of history, who have not 
only misrepresented the causes which led to the war, but have also mis- 
stated the actual occurrences thereof — such as victories won by either 
side, relative numbers engaged, and other details. The gist of the report 
may be gathered from the following extracts: 

In nothing has the South suffered so much at the hands of the writers 
of school history, as in the treatment of the subjects of state sovereignty, nullifi- 
cation, slavery and secession. Since the success of Northern resources over 
Southern arms in the civil war, it has been the practice of Northern writers to 
isolate the period of the war and either uphold the specific acts of the South in 
withdrawing from the Union as a political crime, using as a term of reproach the 
term rebellion, or to infer from the fact that Southern independence was not 
maintained, that secession was morally wrong. The facts of American history 
rob the reproach of its sting when it shows that the foundations of our present 
government were laid in secession, the states moving in the matter, virtually 
seceding from the perpetual union under the articles of confederation, that the 
structure of American independence was upreared in rebellion, that subsequently 
every section of the country has at some time threatened to secede. In refer- 
ence to the question of nullification, it was not one of the Southern states that 
alone proposed it, but it originated in the North, where many of the states, by 
legislative enactment, nullified the constitution of the United States, especially 
with respect to the fugitive slave law, that the whole country, and not the 
South alone, was responsible for slavery, the system prevailing in the North as 
long fis it was found profitable; that the slave trade was made possible only 
by New England vessels manned by New England crews. The true cause of the 
war between the states was the dignified withdrawal of the Southern states from 
the Union to avoid the continued breaches of that domestic tranquility guar- 
anteed but not consummated by the constitution, and not the high moral purpose 
of the North to destroy slavery, which followed incidentally as a war measure. 
As to the war itself and the results of the war, the children of the future would 
be astonished that a people fought so hard and so long with so little to fight for, 
judging from what they gather from histories now in use, prepared by 
writers from the North. They are utterly destitute of information as to events 
leading to the war. Their accounts of the numbers engaged, courage displayed, 
sacrifices endured, hardships encountered, and barbarity practiced upon an 
almost defenseless people whose arms-bearing population was in the army, are 
incorrect in every way. A people who, for four long years, fought over almost 
every foot of their territory, on over two thousand battle fields, with the odds 
of 2,864,272 enlisted men against their 600,000 enlisted men, and their coasts 
blockaded and rivers filled with gunboats, with 600 vessels of war manned by 
35,000 sailors, and who protracted the struggle until over one-half of their sol- 
diers were dead from the casualties of war, had something to fight for. They 
fought for the great principle of local self-government, and the privilege of man- 
aging their own affairs, and for the protection of their homes and firesides. 



16 SPONSOR souve:nir album. 

While the South would detract not an iota from the patriotic motive and en- 
deavor of those opposing them, she intends that the truth of history shall be writ- 
ten by a sympathetic and friendly pen, to give her credit for what our ancestors 
did, and for what was done by the South in the war between the states. Also, to 
chronicle the results of that war and its effects upon the South and upon our 
common country. * * * 

A true history is now desired. The war between the states and its issues 
are things of the past and are committed to history. The duty of patriotic citi- 
zens in every part of our common country is to strive with citizens of every other 
section to promote the progress and glory of our grand country in working out 
its destiny. Secession and slavery are decided forever against the South. It 
makes no matter now who was to blame and how plainly the right of a sovereign 
state to withdraw from the Union is established by legal right or by the con- 
struction of our highest court, the matter is finally settled. When Jefferson and 
Madison construed our constitution in one way and Washington and Hamilton 
in another, surely there was ground for their descendants to honestly differ in 
construing the constitution. Now, the facts of history must be made to speak for 
themselves and equal and exact justice must be done everywhere. The flag of 
our country is not the peculiar heritage of any section or part of this Union; each 
of its many sections can claim its part and its proper share of the honors. Let 
us be honest everywhere; let us tell the truth, even to the record of the war 
between the states and the causes leading to it, and the facts after the war. There 
is honor and glory enough for all; for North, for South, for East, for West. The 
South and its descendants to this present time are willing to abide by the true 
record impartially put into history. Your committee is pleased to report that a 
growing interest in this matter of a true history of the United States is apparent 
at the South, as also at the North; that the time has at last arrived when truth 
can be told, listened to and digested without the passions and prejudices of the 
past. The histories written by Northern historians in the first ten or fifteen 
years following the close of the war, dictated by prejudice and prompted by the 
evil passions of that period (and generally used in the schools) are unfit for use, 
and lack all the breadth, liberality and sympathy so essential to true history, 
and, although some of them have been toned down, they are not yet fair and ac- 
curate in the statements of facts. Many of these histories have an edition for use 
in Northern schools and another of the same history for use in Southern schools, 
toned down and made to pander, as is supposed, to Southern sentiment. 

What is needed is a history equally fitted for use North and South, and di- 
vested of all passion and prejudice incident to the war period. Until a more lib- 
eral tone is indicated by Northern historians, it is best that their books be kept 
out of Southern schools. The veterans of the Northern and Southern armies now 
look at the issues for which they fought more dispassionately, and there are 
many pointers indicating a more liberal and a fairer view of the motives and as- 
pirations of the two sections in the great struggle. 

It is therefore important that the Southern people be aroused and take steps 
to have a correct history written, a history which will vindicate them from the 
one-sided indictment found in many of the histories now extant. The love of a 
common country is now invoking a spirit of truth, concession and fairness in 
reviewing the causes which led to the war, and in discussing the conduct of the 
war and its results. It is conceded that both sections had right on their side as 
they construed the constitution, and certainly the valor displayed is evidence 
that they were sincere and believed they were right. The movement is assuming 



18 SPONSOR SOUVENIR AIvBUM. 

the best and most permanent form, and the demand is growing for truth, not 
self-adulation and disparagement of the other side, not crimination and recrim- 
ination. The public sentiment is well tempered and patriotic, as attested by 
the tone of the press, by the increase in the number of historical articles in mag- 
azines and periodicals and in publication of such books as "The South, Con- 
stitution and Resulting Union," by Rev. Dr. J. L. M. Curry, of Virginia. The 
Northern tone is much more liberal. The government is continuously publishing 
official reports and other material throwing light on all matters of difference. 

Yet with all this the South was conquered in war, and if Southern vet- 
erans who are living, and their descendants, do not look to their own vindication 
by sympathetic pens, the record of history will contain many errors and false 
indictments against the South, which have originated with Northern writers 
with that partiality for their section which is evident from the coloring of his- 
tory from the landing of the first colonists in Virginia to the present time. Most 
of this awaking of interest in the desire for a true history of the United States 
is due to the action of the Confederate veterans, the judicious and liberal tone of 
their proceedings directed to vindication and to manly assertion of broad senti- 
ments, and the consciousness of high patriotic motives and intent in defending 
principles they knew to be right. 

And after failing in manly and heroic conflict to sustain those principles, in 
restoring their allegiance to one common country, feeling it to be their country, 
feeling that their ancestors did a prominent and large part in building and de- 
veloping it. While some of us may conscientiously think it is not the union of 
states first formed, that it is a new and more centralized, stronger union, and not 
the one our fathers established; yet such as it is, it is now the best government 
in the world; it is our government, and it has our admiration and love. The 
love of a common country, which should animate every patriotic citizen, de- 
mands a fair and impartial history to transmit to our descendants a proper re- 
spect and regard for a common ancestry. 

At the conclusion of the reading of the report, and after its unani- 
mous adoption, opportunity was given those who desired, to shake hands 
with Miss Davis, and for more than an hour the members of that great 
gathering filed past her in a steady stream, neither of her hands ever being 
released by one before another was ready to press it in token of the love 
and esteem in which her name was held. 

General Gordon, too, was forced to hold an impromptu reception, 
and his hands were grasped by thousands, many of whom had seen him 
in the battle front when, with undaunted courage, he flung his gallant 
legions against the serried phalanx of an outnumbering foe. 

The evening session was given up chiefly to a discussion of the need 
for a new constitution, the matter being referred to a committee for con- 
sideration and report, and the convention adjourned early to give the vet- 
erans an opportunity to enjoy a concert arranged for their entertainment. 
The program was made up of songs and recitations, the numbers chosen 
being from those of the war period, and the excellent renditions were 
greatly enjoyed. 



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SECOND DAYS' SESSION. 

The meeting of the veterans on the second day was, perhaps, the 
most enjoyable of all, for it was characterized by such a display of the 
wonderfully eloquent oratory for which the South is noted, as is seldom 
given men to enjoy. After the new constitution had been read and 
adopted, the committee in charge of the Davis monument fund made a 
report, and General Cabell, in speaking to it, touched a chord in the breast 
of Dr. J. William Jones, which set his nerves to thrilling and loosened his 
tongue to the utterance of a most passionate burst of patriotic eloquence. 

As soon as the committee report had been disposed of the convention 
decided to go into the selection of a place for the next reunion, and Gen- 
eral Peyton F. Wise, of Virginia, took the stand for the purpose of placing 
Richmond in nomination. The name of Wise carries with it the aroma of 
oratory, for its bearers have been among the most eloquent sons of the 
Old Dominion, and much was expected from the veteran who bore it and 
spoke for Richmond. But even those who knew him best were not pre- 
pared for the gem of oratorical effort that dropped from his lips with such 
electrical effect. 

Other eloquent speeches followed — that of Mayor Davis, of Kansas 
City, audacious, witty, original; of General Clement A. Evans, speaking 
for Atlanta; of General Law for Charleston, and of a number of those 
who seconded the nomination of each city, forming, altogether, a feast 
of eloquent utterances that was thrilling in effect. 

The ballot showed a majority for Richmond over all, and the choice 
of the capital of the Confederacy was made unanimous. 

At night the veterans were again entertained at the auditorium, the 
program being made up chiefly of tableaux, in which scores of young 
ladies from all the Southern states took part. The brilliant lights, the 
bright costumes and the lovely faces of these fair daughters of the South, 
the beauty represented being of every conceivable type, made the pictures 
presented upon the stage radiantly beautiful and never to be forgotten 
by the beholders, while the shouts and applause that greeted each suc- 
cessive scene showed the esteem in which Southern chivalry holds South- 
ern loveliness. 

THIRD DAYS' SESSION. 

The session of the third and last day was given up chiefly to the 
selection of a commander-in-chief and department commanders. The 
only contested position was that held by Lieutenant General W. L. 
Cabell, of Texas, commander of the trans-Mississippi department. The 
friends of the gallant General T. N. Waul, also of Texas, urged him for the 
place, and it took a roll-call of the Texas camps to decide between him 



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and General Cabell. The latter, however, proved the stronger, and his 
re-election was made unanimous. 

Of the newly created department of the Army of Northern Virginia 
General Wade Hampton was elected commander and General Stephen 
D. Lee was re-elected commander of the Army of the Tennessee, both by 
acclamation. 

The scene attending the re-election of General Gordon as command- 
er-in-chief was remarkable beyond description. He was placed in nomi- 
nation by Major J. N. Stubbs, of Virginia, and his nomination sec- 
onded by General Stephen D. Lee, who moved to elect him unanimously 
and by acclamation. 

The veterans did not wait for the question to be put, but immediately 
all arose, and the cheering lasted several minutes. General Gordon was 
deeply moved, and as he stood upon the platform and faced the remnants 
of the grandest army that ever drew sword in cause of right, and witnessed 
the outpouring of their love, tears flowed freely down his cheeks, and his 
emotion almost overcome him. When quiet had come again he said: 

Only the searcher of all hearts knows the debt of gratitude your action 
awakens in this heart. I would rather have my place in the hearts open to me 
to-day than any honor this earth has to bestow. The proudest epitaph that can 
be written upon my tomb when your hands shall lay me to rest, is, "Here lies a 
Confederate soldier." God bless you, my fellow-soldiers, and make me worthy" 
of this honor. 

In keeping with the broad spirit of patriotism which characterized all 
the acts and utterances of this great meeting, was the splendid greeting 
given Colonel E. T. Lee, a federal soldier, now secretary of the Shiloh 
Battle Field Association. Colonel Lee, who is, by the way, a splendid 
type of sturdy manhood — tall, erect and firm of carriage — explained the 
object of his association as being to furnish a common place of meeting 
for the veterans of both armies, where all would feel equally at home. 
He invited the Confederate veterans to the Shiloh field, not as strangers 
or as guests, but as soldiers exercising their rights, for they had the right. 
Other officials of the association, he said, had been in the Confederate 
army, and it was the intention of all connected with it to make Shiloh,. 
once the scene of the exercise of the most splendid valor of both sides, 
now the home of both. 

Colonel Lee's speech was greeted by tremendous applause, and the 
reception given him filled him with emotion. 

Immediately following the speech of Colonel Lee, General Gordon 
caused to be read a cordial letter of greeting from General J. M. Scho- 
field, of the United States army, who had been for some days in the city. 
The letter was full of a patriotic sentiment that embraced the entire- 
country in its scope, and its reading was greeted with great cheering. 



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A communication from Charles Broadway Rouss, of New York, 
an ex-private in the Confederate army, now a very wealthy man, and 
almost totally blind, was read by the secretary. 

Comrade Rouss proposed a plan for preserving in some central local- 
ity the archives of the Confederacy and such historical data as has been or 
may be gathered from time to time, so that the historian who wants facts, 
or the future Southron who wants to know^ the truth of his ancestors, 
may be conveniently accommodated. He held himself ready, he wrote, 
to head the subscription for this purpose with a donation of $100,000 
whenever a properly matured plan should be agreed upon. 

The proposition of Mr. Rouss, accompanied by his offer of such a 
generous donation, was received by the veterans with great demonstra- 
tions of appreciation. 

The last minutes of the meeting were given to a scramble for flowers, 
which showed, in a manner, the esteem in which the city of Houston was 
held by the visitors. General Gordon said two great baskets of Cape 
Jasmines had been sent — one to the convention and one to himself; he 
laid ''both at the feet of the veterans." In a few moments each flower 
ornamented the lapel of a soldier's coat, and a thousand veterans declared 
they would preserve as mementoes the buds whose fragrance was not 
more sweet than the memory of the hospitality of the people of Houston. 

At 12:45 Friday, May 24, the fifth annual reunion of the United 
Confederate Veterans adjourned sine die. 




_^OGML JE£TURE5 OF THE "^E^UNIOK 




HE society functions, given mostly in honor 
of the daughter of the great Confederate 
chieftain, were among the many pleasant 
accessories of the greatest of Confederate 
reunions. The monster reception at the 
auditorium and the daily morning recep- 
tions to the sponsors, in Armory hall, were 
admirably planned and carried out by the 
ladies' reception committee, headed by 
Mrs. J. C. Hutcheson, wife of the congress- 
man of the First Texas district. But these 
public functions have been often described 
elsewhere, and it is the intention to embrace in 
this sketch some of the various teas, receptions, 
etc., given by private individuals. 



AT JUDQE MASTERSON'S. 

On Wednesday evening, May 2^, Judge James Masterson and his 
daughter, Miss Masterson, gave a very elegant card reception in honor 
of their guest, Miss Varina Davis, daughter of the late president of the 
Confederate states, Hon. JefTerson Davis, at Judge Masterson's stately 
mansion, on Main street. The large parlors and hall were crowded from 
9 to 12 o'clock at night. The elegant toilettes of the ladies, the faultless 
dress suits of the civilians, the glittering uniforms of officers, and the 
crush and jam everywhere, reminded one vividly of state receptions at 
Washington in the height of the season. Houston's four hundred and 
representatives of the four hundred of many other Southern cities were 
there in force, swelling the number to seven hundred or more. Miss 
Davis was, of course, the center of attraction. She is elsewhere de- 
scribed in this volume, but no words can give an idea of her charm of 
manner, her winning smile, her soft musical voice, her marvelous per- 
sonal magnetism, a heritage from her illustrious father. Personally, Miss 
Davis strongly resembles her mother, both in face and figure, but men- 
tally she is very hke her father. Her manner, also, is Hke his, and his 

irresistible fascination. 

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Miss Masterson stood next her guest of honor and was assisted in 
receiving by Mrs. William M. Rice, Mrs. William H. Palmer, Mrs. Sea- 
brook W. Sydnor and Mrs. Rector, of Austin. The younger ladies, who, 
dressed in charming shepherdess costumes, assisted in the supper room 
were, Miss Rector, of Austin; Miss Dale, of Tennessee; Miss Root, Miss 
Justine Franklin, Miss Nealie Wilson, Miss Bessie Hill and Miss Bentley. 

MR. AND MRS. RICE. 

Mr. and Mrs. WilHam M. Rice threw open their elegant and spacious 
apartments in the bel/e etage of the new flats, corner of Texas avenue and 
Travis street, Thursday morning, from ii to i o'clock, in honor of Miss 
Davis. During and after the hours named the throng into and out of the 
rooms was tremendous. Here, as at the other receptions given during 
the week, many persons prominent in the late war were objects of atten- 
tion and interest. General John B. Gordon, of Georgia; General Wheeler, 
of Alabama; General Nelson, of Alabama; General Cabell, of Dallas, 
Texas; Mrs. Lucia Polk Chapman, a daughter of General and Bishop 
Leonidas Polk, of Louisiana; Mrs. Charlotte M. Allen, of Houston, aunt 
of the hostess, a pioneer settler, aged ninety years, and Mrs. P. L. Hadley, 
another pioneer Houstonian, aged eighty-eight years, who was devoted to 
the Confederate cause. 

Miss Davis occupied the place of honor in the line formed in the 
front parlor, with the hostess on one side and Mrs. John H. Reagan, wife of 
the Confederate postmaster general, and only survivor of President Davis' 
cabinet, on the other. Others assisting Mrs. Rice were: Mrs. Charlotte 
M. Allen, Mrs. P. L. Hadley, Mrs. Walter Gresham, of Galveston; Mrs. 
Stone, of Galveston; Mrs. Louise Cleveland, of Galveston; Mrs, J. C. 
Hutcheson, Mrs. Thomas R. Franklin, Mrs. William D. Cleveland, Mrs. 
Charles S. House, Mrs. S. K. Mcllhenny, Mrs. Julius Kruttschmitt, Mrs. 
William Baker Turner, of Houston; the Misses Willis, of Galveston; Miss 
Nelson, of Alabama; Miss Ashe, of Dallas, Texas; Miss Leovy and Miss 
Bobb, of New Orleans; Miss Root, Miss Cleveland, Miss Hutcheson, Miss 
Masterson, Miss Carson, Miss Porter, Miss Franklin, Miss Bessie Hill, 
Miss DilHngham, Miss Simpson, Miss Delgado. Miss Cargill, Miss Tina 
Cleveland, Miss Mildred Hutcheson, Miss Usher, Miss Ballinger, Miss 
Bryan, Miss Opal Smith, Miss Hunter, Miss Clemens and others, of 
Houston. 

HONOR TO JUDGE AND MRS. REAGAN. 

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bein gave a delightful informal reception 
Friday morning, from ii to i o'clock, at their handsome residence, 1904 
Main street, in honor of the most distinguished citizen of Texas, Hon. 
John H. Reagan, and his lovely wife, who were guests of Mr. and Mrs. 




Houston. 



26 SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. 

Bein during the reunion. Although greatly fatigued by a rapid succes- 
sion of social episodes, Miss Davis honored her father's cabinet officer 
and faithful friend by her presence and was as much sought after as 
though she had just arrived in the city. 

At this, as at all the receptions, flowers were artistically and lavishly 
used in decoration, and elegant luncheons or suppers were handsomely 
served; and like the others, also, the visitors went way up into the hun- 
dreds of cultured, refined, agreeable women and men. Among those 
assisting Mrs. Bein in receiving and caring for her guests were, her 
mother, Mrs. Bobb, and her sister. Miss Bobb, Mrs. Lucia Polk Chapman, 
of Louisiana; Mrs. WilHam M. Rice, Mrs. Charles S. House, Miss Root, 
Miss McKeeon, Miss Leovy, of New Orleans; Miss Bangs, of St. Louis, 
and Miss Usher. The younger ladies were stationed in the dining room 
and were most attentive to the guests. 

A BUFFET LUNCHEON. 

This was the informal and most delightfully social way in which Mrs. 
JuliusKruttschmitt chose to give Miss Davis a quiet, pleasant hour or 
two free from the crushes which were inevitable at the larger functions 
that preceded it. Miss Leovy and Miss Rogers, who were Mrs. Krutt- 
schmitt's guests during the reunion, assisted the hostess in her pleasant 
duties. The old Ben Botts homestead has been the scene of many pleas- 
ant affairs since it became the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Krutt- 
schmitt, but never to better purpose than on this bright, unstudied occa- 
sion. Miss Davis had opportunities to show the remarkable talent for 
entertaining for which she is justly so much admired. The luncheon 
was delicious, and sensed from the bufifet, and conversation rippled and 
sparkled as in the olden days, so that the hours from i to 3 in the after- 
noon were winged. 

HONOR TO ''THE FENCIBLES." 

Mr. and Mrs. T. W. House gave a very elegant reception to the Fort 
Worth Fencibles, of which their daughter, Miss Mary House, was 
sponsor, Thursday evening, from 9 to 12, at their beautiful home, on 
Louisiana street, and it proved one of the most agreeable features of the 
Reunion. The whole lower floor was thrown open, brilliantly lighted, and 
made most lovely by the feathery foliage of exquisite palm trees, reaching 
nearly to the ceiling and raised in the fine conservatory attached to the 
house. Smaller palms adorned the stairway and were placed in groups 
in every room. Miss House received her guests in the drawing room to 
the right, assisted by her maids of honor, Miss McDowell, of Bastrop; 
Miss Root, Miss Cleveland and Miss Porter, of Houston, and by Miss 



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Emily Taylor, Miss Mildred Hutcheson, Miss Tina Cleveland, Miss 
Usher, Miss Nannie Usher, Miss McKeever, Miss Belle Moore, of Bas- 
trop; Mrs. Walter Howze, Mrs. Berry W. Camp and Mrs. John Shearn. 

The Fencibles were out in full regimentals and made a vtry line 
appearance. DiehPs string band and the Fencibles' brass band alternately 
made the air vocal with concord of sweet sound. Mr. Joe H. Eagle made 
the address of welcome, to which the captain of the company eloquently 
responded. A superb supper was served amid much cheerful interchange 
of talk and merry laughter, while music from without shed its joyous influ- 
ence over all. 

Among the guests present, in addition to those already mentioned, 
were: Mrs. Edward M. House, of Austin ; Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. House, 
Mr. and Mrs. William J .Hancock, Mrs. McDowell, of Bastrop; Mrs. 
Tankersley, Mrs. Haven, Misses Cooper and Clark, of Fort Worth : Miss 
Bronson, of Victoria; Miss Elliott, of New Orleans; Miss Lubbock, Miss 
Justine Franklin. Miss Mamie Lubbock, Miss Batcher, Dr. Lamkin, 
Messrs. Berry W. Camp, Philip Carson, W. D. Cleveland, Jr., Harcourt, 
Curth, John Shearn, Scott, Weaker Howze, Henrs^ Howze, Frank Howze, 
Abbott Cockrell and others. 



Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Noyes gave a large and brilliant reception in the 
parlors of the Capitol Hotel, Friday evening, in honor of the Washington 
artillery, of New Orleans. The host and hostess received their visitors at 
the door of the east parlor and were assisted by Mrs. Lawrence Sullivan 
Ross, wife of ex-Governor Ross, and Mrs. Sims, of Bryan ; Mrs. Hearne, of 
Austin; Mrs. J. C. Hutcheson, Mrs. B. F. Weems, Mrs. Charles S. House, 
Mrs. Rosine Ryan, Mrs. W. D. Cleveland, Mrs. W. H. Garrow, Mrs. T. U. 
Lubbock, Mrs. R. C. Giraud, Mrs. Robert Rutherford, Mrs. Robert 
Brewster, Mrs. Seabrook Sydnor, Mrs. Louise Cleveland, Galveston; 
Mrs. Chapman, Mrs. Bronson, New Orleans; Mrs. Ida Tyler, Miss Harn, 
sponsor for Texas; Miss Nelson, sponsor for Alabama; Miss Herrington, 
Miss Opal Smith, of Georgia ; Miss WilHe, of Galveston ; Miss Scruggs, of 
Dallas ; Miss Rutherford, of Austin ; Miss Cleveland, Miss Lubbock, Miss 
Mamie Lubbock, Miss Hutcheson, Miss Mildred Hutcheson, Miss Frank- 
lin, Miss Tina Cleveland, Miss Bryan, Miss Hartwell, Miss Hennie 
Price and Miss Kirkland. 

A HAPPY EPISODE. 

The band which came with the Washington artillery was borrowed 
for the occasion from the Continental Guard, of which Charles W. Drown 
is captain. Now, Captain Drown is an old friend of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. 
Chew, and charged the band to be sure and give them a serenade while 
in Houston. On Saturday the drum-major, Mr. Adolph Berendsohn. 



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who was acting leader in place of Mr. John Wunch, who could not leave 
home, asked Mr. Chew if it would be agreeable to him to receive a sere- 
nade, as Captain Drown had directed. Needless to say, it was agreeable, 
both as a musical treat and a souvenir of his old friend. Mr. Chew and 
his lovely wife but half enjoy pleasures unshared by their friends, so the 
neighbors were notified, and by 2 o'clock the handsome hall and parlors 
were well filled with friends. The band appeared promptly at 2 P. M., and 
stopped at the front gate, while two beautiful numbers were played. The 
players were then invited on to the broad veranda and served with cham- 
pagne, lemonade and cake, as were also the assembled guests. Then the 
music was resumed and the audience held spellbound for an hour, after 
which Mrs. Chew presented the band with an exquisite floral harp of 
sweet peas and maiden-hair fern. The drum-major was presented with 
a beautiful bouquet and the band left, much delighted with this specimen 
of Houston hospitality. 

FOR GOVERNOR CULBERSON. 

The young governor of Texas was the recipient of many pleasant 
hospitalities during his stay in Houston reunion week. Among the most 
delightful of them was an elegant dinner given to himself and his chief of 
staff by Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. House, at their elegant home, on Main 
street, Tuesday evening. Superb roses, jasmines and ferns made bits of 
gay color in the daintily tinted drawing room, and soft mandolin music 
floated down from an alcove at the head of the massive stairway. The 
feature of the dining room was a broad dining table covered with white 
satin damask and a white lace scarf extending down the center from end 
to end. Tall cut-glass vases held maiden-hair ferns and a large bowl 
of the same costly material in the center of the table was filled with sweet 
peas. Silver and crystal ware reflected back the light from the chandelier 
overhead in a thousand prismatic rays. The viands served were worthy 
the charming accessories of the table; the company was congenial and 
appreciative, and the evening went into the past laden with pleasant mem- 
ories. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Charles House, Governor 
Charles A. Culberson and General Mabry, guests of honor; Mr. and Mrs. 
Edward M. House, of Austin; Mr. and Mrs. William D. Cleveland, Mrs. 
William M. Rice, Mr. and Mrs. Berry W^ Camp, Congressman Bell, of 
Fort Worth, and Hon. J. R. Fleming, late of San Antonio. 

THE FLOWER PARADE. 

Notwithstanding the rain, about fifteen beautifully decorated car- 
riages drove through the principal streets of the city Wednesday evening, 
carrying charmingly gowned women and children, with a sprinkling of 




Houston. 



30 SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. 

distinguished men. The planning and execution of the beautiful feature 
is due to Mrs. William M. Rice, who very properly headed the procession 
with Miss Davis. Her carriage was decorated on the outside with mag- 
nolias and the harness and interior were traced in Cape Jasmines. Mrs. 
J. C. Hutcheson's carriage was done in pond lilies and golden butterflies; 
Mrs. W. D. Cleveland's in pale pink roses; Mrs. T. W. House's in wistaria; 
Mrs. Charles S. House's in pink poppies and pale blue ribbons; Mrs. John 
H. B. House's in La France roses; ]\lrs. S. B. Dick's in yellow 
chrysanthemums; Mrs. Pressley K. Ewing's in red roses; Mrs. Henry S. 
Foz's in white roses and green ribbons. Others taking part in the parade 
were: Mrs. W. A. Childress, Mrs. H. F. Ring, Mrs. Charies S. Wigg, 
Mrs. William Baker Turner, Mrs. J. T. D. Wilson and Mrs. Isaac Baker. 

OTHER RECEPTIONS. 

Mrs. P. J. Willis, of Galveston, gave a reception to Sterling Price 
Camp, at their headquarters, in the Capitol Hotel, which was a very chic 
affair. 

An impromptu reception was held at the Capitol Hotel in honor of 
General J. M. Schofield, United States army, at which all the Confederate 
generals and a number of ladies were present. 

The Alabama Camp gave a reception to their state sponsor, Miss 
Nelson, and her maids of honor, Miss Mary Harralson and Miss Lida 
Nelson, which was largely attended by the Alabamians now living in 
Houston. 

The Tennessee contingent gave a reception in honor of the state 
sponsor. Miss Carrie Montague Jennings, and her maid of honor. Miss 
Fannie Millard Sparks, Friday evening, in the parlors of the Capitol 
Hotel, which was a most delightful affair. 

Dr. and Mrs. Byers gave a charming tea in honor of the Texas 
Woman's Press Association, Friday evening, at their quaint colonial 
home on Bagby street. 

The Misses Taylor gave a dance in their father's residence, on Craw- 
ford street, in honor of their guests. Miss Fowler, Miss Dora Fowler, Miss 
Brooks and Miss Bailey, of Paris, Texas, on Monday evening, which was 
a very pretty function. 

AFTERNOON TEA. 

The non-arrival of Mrs. Mollie E. ^Nloore Davis was, of course, a 
great disappointment to the large concourse of people who filled the hand- 
some residence of Mr. and Mrs. S. K. Mcllhenny Thursday afternoon, 
from 4 to 7, yet regret at the absence of our Texas poetess (who has 
become a New Orleans story writer) did not prevent the assembly from 
being a very merry one. Iced tea, deliciously flavored with lemons, mint 



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and other nice things, was served with cake in the rooms opposite the 
drawing rooms. This was one of the pleasantest affairs of the week. 

WHEELER'S SURRENDER. 

One of the most prominent features of the great reunion was a 
pubHc reception tendered General Wheeler and his charming and accom- 
plishd daughter, ]\Iiss Annie, at the Light Guard Armory, given under 
the direction of Terry's Texas rangers. General Wheeler was escorted 
from their headquarters on Main street, and on reaching the armory was 
met by his daughter, where a bower of lovely women were guarded by a 
detachment of brave and courteous gentlemen. 

Their presence was announced by Captain T. U. Lubbock, aided by 
Postmaster G. B. Zimpelman, of Austin, and Captain R. Y. King. 

For two long hours, to the strains of martial music, cordial greetings 
were exchanged and a happy time was had. It is estimated that at least 
five thousand of the leading gentlemen of Houston graced the occasion 
by their presence. 

The gallant old general never felt prouder of his daghter, and the 
man who had led armies on a dozen battle fields of the great war was 
caotured at last by his old Texas rangers in Texas. 

The "Old Bee Hunter," as the boys used to call him, felt his condi- 
tion and appreciated the demonstration of kindness shown by the sur- 
vivors of his "old guard" in a distant state from his home in Alabama, had 
completely captured him thirty years after taking off his ragged uniform 
when hostilities closed. 

His lovely daughter, Miss Annie, felt proud, indeed, to see the man- 
ner in which her noble old father was captured and being compelled to 
"strike his colors" and surrender for the second time in his life to the 
force of superior numbers. 





Houston. 



jpTOW OF J^OQUENGE. 




DR. JONES* PRAYER. 

the assembling of the association the first 
day, Dr. J. WiUiam Jones, chaplain, 
delivered the following invocation: 

Oh, God! Our God, our lielp in years 
gone by, our hope for years to come — God 
of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, God of 
Israel, God of the centuries, God of our 
fathers, God of Jefferson Davis, Robert 
Edward Lee, and Stonewall Jackson, 
Lord of hosts and King of kings — we 
bring thee glad and grateful hearts as 
we gather to-day in our reunion. 

We thank thee that, in the world's 
history, when men have been needed, 
thou hast raised them up. 
We thank thee especially that, in the brave old days of '61-'65, thou didst give 
to our Southland men — great men — as our leaders, and patriotic heroes of the 
rank and file, who, often, with bare and bleeding feet, followed their great lead- 
ers to an immortality of fame. 

We thank thee that, while so many fell in battle, and so many have been 
fallirg out of ranks as the years have gone by, yet so many are still spared 
and so many are permitted to gather in this annual reunion. 

God bless every section of our common country — the rulers of the whole land, 
and of each one of the states, and our whole people. Send us, we beseech thee, 
fruitful seasons, abundant harvests and returning prosperity, and grant that 
real peace and plenty may smile upon the land once more. Meet with us, we 
beseech thee, in this convention; guide, direct and bless us, and send out influ- 
ence that shall bless the land. 

We invoke thy special blessing upon our maimed and needy comrades; that 
friends may be raised up to supply their wants, and that heaven's richest favor 
may rest upon them. 

Hear us, O God! Answer and bless us, pardon, sanctify and save us, we 
humbly ask in the name and for the sake of Christ, our dear Redeemer. Amen. 



GOVERNOR CULBERSON'S SPEECH. 

Hon. Charles A. Culberson, governor of Texas, welcomed the vet- 
erans to Texas, as follows; 

The American colonists, fleeing from multiplied wrongs of monarchy, estab- 
lished themselves along the Atlantic coast and early became the dominant forces 
of the continent. They planted there the seed of that revolutionary political 

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faith which developed into our remarkable form of government. The original 
and commanding proportions of that splendid structure are the marvel of man- 
kind, and its corner-stone, laid thus in a wilderness, and since encircling the 
earth with its influence, is the fundamental principle of local self-government. 
Deep-rooted in the affections of the people and essential to the creation and 
enjoyment of liberty in a representative democracy, its enemies determined that 
this characteristic of American institutions should neither grow nor be ex- 
tended. In resistance to British assaults upon it, Jefferson sounded the noblest 
call to arms since the birth of freedom, and, amid the clash of embattled armies, 
the foundation of its perpetuity was laid in our organic charter. Nor was the 
march of the cardinal principle of the revolution wholly arrested elsewhere. 
Battling for it, rare and noble spirits won imperishable renown in Poland. 
France, in a revolution dishonored by many cruelties, but founded in just cause, 
discrowned her king and rebuked the despotism of centuries. Across the English 
channel that lofty sentiment was maturing for which Emmet offered up his 
young life, ennobling that heroic and unended struggle for liberty which has 
been alike the affliction and the glory of his countrymen. 

With the victories of Washington and in association with this growth of 
constitutional government, by common consent of American civilization, grew 
the unhappy domestic institution of African slavery. In its incipiency and for 
years afterward it was shared and defended by all. Whatever may have been 
their motives, whether friendship for the institution or an overshadowing pur- 
pose to establish the Union, a majority of Northern with a minority of Southern 
states engrafted upon the national constitution a recognition of slavery and pro- 
vided adequate safeguards for its protection. Recognized and guarded by fun- 
damental law, entrenched behind the doctrine of local self-government and 
wrought into the very tissues of Southern civilization, it may be that its early 
extinction lay only in revolution; yet, with the lapse of time, its evils were ob- 
served by the humanity and statesmanship of all sections. Jefferson hesi- 
tated not to denounce it, but compared the solution of the problem to the fearful 
alternative of holding or unloosing a ferocious beast. Under these surroundings 
the system continued to be encouraged and extended. With superior marine 
equipments and trading talents, the North assiduously prosecuted the slave trade 
until the native increase of the slave population in the South rendered it un- 
profitable. The inauguration and growth of manufactures in the North, demand- 
ing skilled white labor, more favorable climatic conditions and greater demand 
for slave labor, gradually concentrated the slaves in the South, and they were 
woven imperceptibly and inexorably into the warp and w^oof of its social and 
industrial life. Freed from the conservative and steadying influence of pe- 
cuniary interest by the sale of its slaves, the North exhibited an awakened and 
quickened conscience as to the moral enormity of slavery, and, with increasing 
bitterness sought its destruction. It was characterized as moral leprosy and its 
abolition demanded; the constitution of the fathers, because it recognized and 
protected it, was denounced and execrated and its provisions evaded or openly 
disregarded; fanatical invasions of states to excite slave insurrection were 
abetted and applauded; the organic principle of local self-government for the 
states was denied; the share of the South in the statesmanship and martial 
glory of the revolution was derided, and Southern character and manners held up 
to ridicule; and when union ceased to be tolerable upon the theory of affection 
and consent of the governed, invading armies were mobilized to coerce original 
and independent sovereignties which had proclaimed that philosophy of govern- 




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36 SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. 

ment and made it immortal. In contradistinction to this, the South in the great 
controversy stood upon the single and broad contention that the national con- 
stitution should be preserved and that the states should be left in their own way 
and in their own time to solve other than federal problems. This brief and gen- 
eral statement of historic truths is not made in a spirit of offense or crimination. 
As part of the continuing argument to posterity they are dispassionately re- 
called as evidence of the provocation and justice of your course, for, while wil- 
lingly ascribing to Northern soldiers equal integrity of purpose, neither lack of 
enthusiasm nor political cowardice should deter one of Southern lineage from 
declaring that for participation in that titanic struggle no apologies need be 
made to this or future generations. Thus challenged to the arbitrament of the 
sword, no answer but acceptance could be made. The author of the declaration 
of independence, the founder of liberty on this continent, the victor in the bat- 
tles of the revolution, the framer of the constitution of the national republic, 
and the foremost champion of the reserved rights of the states, the South could 
not forget the past nor submit to the destruction of its constitutional guarantees 
and hostile invasion of its territory. The progress and result of the mighty con- 
test which ensued are known of all men. Remembering the masterful and 
intrepid attack, whether considered with reference to resolute grasp of great 
questions by the civil administration, under the leadership of that illustrious 
man whose daughters honor us with their presence, or the brilliant operations of 
the land and naval forces, the defense of the South in vigor and heroism is 
without a parallel. Out of scant material and resources a strong and pow- 
erful government was constructed and to the end was administered by states- 
men worthy the gigantic struggle in which they were engaged. Less than a 
dozen warships, commanded by the equals of Decatur and Nelson, successfully 
patrolled and expelled the Union merchant marine from American waters. In 
inilitary conceptions as bold and comprehensive as those of Napoleon or Wel- 
lington, and in charges more brilliant than those of Murat or Cardigan, the 
armies astonished and electrified the world. Every land was dazzled with their 
deeds and the universe emblazoned with their glory. Brave as Spartans and 
knightly as the old cavaliers, "somewhere in eternity within some golden palace 
walls where old imperial banners float and Launcelots keep guard and Arthurs 
reign and all the patriot heroes dwell," they will abide with brothers. 

Now that the passions of the great civil strife sleep in patriotic oblivion and 
only its loftier impulses are treasured, it is appropriate that the survivors of the 
Confederacy should meet in fraternal reunion. This great state is honored by 
your coming and it is the proudest of my official acts in her name to welcome 
you cordially to her soil and the hospitalities of her people. It is fitting that the 
brave should meet here, in a noble city named for Houston, within cannon- 
sound of the battle field of San Jacinto, in a state that has measured glory with 
the ancients, and upon whose every hearthstone the fires of patriotism still burn- 
Crowned with the glories of battle and decked with the flowers of peace, 

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Fades into Ihe distant west, 
Ra3-s of its parting- splenc'or 

Fall on your place of re; t ; 
Then to the silent chnrchj-ard 

Love's footsteps shall fondly stray 
To pray for the souls of heroes 

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GENERAL GORDON'S SPEECH. 

General John B. Gordon, commander-in-chief of the United Confed- 
erate Veterans' Association, responded to the welcoming addresses as 
follows : 

Governor, Mr, Mayor, Comrades and Fellow-Citizens — It is my official duty 
and high privilege to respond in behalf of my comrades to this gracious welcome 
and tender of munificent hospitality by the city of Houston and state of Texas. 
When I have said that they are characteristic of this city and state, my 
language is capable of no stronger expression. What higher tribute could be 
paid to this great people than to say that their hospitality is worthy of Texas? 
Around the name and history of Texas are gathered associations glorious and 
hallowed; and in her future career are centered high hopes of richest contribu- 
tion to the republic. 

In fifty years of statehood she has risen to a commanding position among 
her sisters; and the imagination can scarcely keep pace with her acsured 
progress in the fifty years to come. With a genial climate and imperial domain^ 
with a soil not only exhaustless in its fertility, but which, like responsive charity,, 
answers with more lavish abundance as the demands upon it become more 
exacting; with a history rich in the memories of her Alamo, her Goliad, her 
San Jacinto, as well as the deeds of her Houston, her Austin, her Travis and 
her Lamar; with a proud heritage of valor and heroism, bequeathed by her 
intrepid sons in the mighty confiict of the sixties; with some of the best blood 
of the republic in the veins of her people, whose indomitable energy and lofty 
spirit are equaled only by their princely hospitality; with all these splendid 
endowments by nature, by history, and by the characteristics of her sons and her 
daughters, what optimistic prophet could predict for her a career so glorious as 
to be beyond her reasonable ambition? 

The assembling of the war-scarred veterans in this war-scarred state recalls 
a striking contrast in the war history. Sixty years ago Texas won her fight for 
independence. Thirty years ago these ex-Confederates lost their fight for sep- 
arate nationality; but Texas, victorious, was no more glorious and grand than 
were these brave men around me in their overwhelming defeat. 

Texas, victorious, won her way to statehood and a place in the front 
ranks of states. The Confederates, crushed and disbanded as soldiers, addressed 
themselves to the duties of citizens with a conservatism so conspicuous, a 
patriotism so true and broad, a fidelity to the decisions of battles unquestioned 
and sincere, as to challenge the confidence and esteem of patriots in every section 
of the Union. 

This leads me to recall three remarkable achievements by these ex-Confed- 
erates in peace which impartial history will pronounce a fitting climax to their 
splendid record in war. The first is the reconstruction, mainly through your 
instrumentality, of the labor system of the entire section. You returned from 
a long, exhausting and unsuccessful struggle to find the agricultural labor of 
your states noL only disorganized, bat as a system (to the management and con- 
trol of which you were born and trained), it was utterly destroyed. Yet you 
heroically undertook the task of its reorganization under a new system, and, 
adapting yourselves to that new order, the success of your efforts is the noblest 
f'ommentary upon your wisdom and justice. With no power to control that 
hitherto servile labor, with no money to pay it, you successfully guided it to a 



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40 SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. 

plane of self-support and to vastly increased production of the South's great 
staple. 

The second is your astounding success in securing, in spite of the radical 
revolution in the conditions around you, and in so short a period, financial inde- 
pendence for your families and industrial prosperity for your section. You 
returned from the war poor, the first of thousands penniless, many shot and 
maimed, and yet bravely and uncomplainingly laboring with aid from no source 
save from God and your own self-reliance and manhood. You have fought your 
way to competence, provided for our disabled comrades until scarcely a Confed- 
erate soldier can be found deprived of the comforts of life. At the same time 
your combined efforts have carried these Southern states to a height of material 
advancement from which you may now calmly look back over a land which but 
thirty years ago was a wide waste of desolation and ashes, and around you over 
a country now happy in its rebuilt homes and redeemed farms, radiant in the 
light of industrial resurrection, of assured prosperity and enduring material 
independence. 

The third achievement is the passionless, unostentatious and peaceful man- 
ner in which you laid aside the trappings and discipline of the camp for the 
garb of the citizen and silent restraints of civil government. For this marvelous 
exhibition of self-command under supremest trials; for this complete burial of 
all sectional bitterness; for the gradual but certain transmuting of your valor 
and devotion, exhibited in defense of the dead that fell into unchallenged loy- 
alty to the flag that triumphed — to all these evidences of the loftiest attributes of 
citizenship, you will find your reward in the universal plaudits of your country- 
men as it is already secured in the power, progress and cherished freedom of 
our reunited republic. 

Go forward, my comrades, and by self-denial, by wise economy and well- 
directed energy, continue the material development of this heaven-blessed sec- 
tion until abundance shall be found in every home, and the whole land shall re- 
joice in your industrial triumph. Go forward in the cultivation of a national 
fraternity, giving no heed to imprudent or thoughtless efforts to stimulate sec- 
tional animosities in any quarter. 

I rejoice in the privilege of bearing to you fraternal greetings from the great 
body of men who confronted you in battle. It has been my fortune recently to 
mingle with those men in every section. Be assured, my Confederate comrades, 
that the overwhelming majority of the Grand Army of the Republic, composed 
of soldiers who were brave in battle and are generous in peace, courageous, 
knightly and true, bear toward you neither lingering bitterness nor sentiment 
of distrust. Whatever of untimely passion may here exist from any cause will 
be of short duration and comparatively harmless. In the presence of your con- 
tinued conservatism, and in view of the higher and nobler sentiment of the 
country, it will vanish as the vapors before the morning sun. 

But I must not consume more of the time of this most important conven- 
tion. I close as I began, by assuring the governor of this great state, the mayor of 
this metropolitan city, and the generous and patriotic people of both, that the 
United Confederate Veterans are profoundly grateful for this superb reception 
and bountiful hospitality. 




HoUvSTON Homes. 



42 



SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. 




SPEECH OF DR. J. WILLIAM JONES. 

HEX the report of the Davis monument com- 
mittee was under consideration. Chaplain 
J. WiUiam Jones, of Mrginia, spoke as fol- 
lows : 

Mr. President — I second the motion to adopt 
this report, and heartily endorse the appeal of 
my gallant old friend, General Cabell. 

So far as Jefferson Davis is concerned, he 
needs no monument. The man who, as soldier, 
illustrated bright pages of American history, 
. and saved the day at Buena Vista by his cool 
bravery and marvelous skill — who, as states- 
man, graced the senate of the United States 
when there "were giants in the land," and was 
. I* the peer of the "great triumvirate" — Clay, Cal- 

houn and Webster — who was a peerless orator — 
who was the greatest secretary of war the coun- 
try ever had, and left many improvements which are now blessing the service: 
who was a patriot true and tried, and who was a high-toned, Christian gentle- 
man, without fear and without reproach — this man has, indeed, "erected a mon- 
ument more lasting than bronze," and needs no granite or marble to perpetuate 
his memory. 

He is no longer "the uncrowned king of his people," but they have crowned 
him with loving hearts, and he lives forever in their affections. 

But we owe it to ourselves, and to the great principles of constitutional 
freedom, for which we fought, and of which Jefferson Davis was the embodi- 
ment that we should rear this monument to teach our children that we were 
true to duty in the day of trial. 

I know not why it is that our president has had heaped upon him the bitterest 
abuse and most malignant slanders of our enemies — that he seems to have been 
singled out for their especial hatred. I heard General Lee say once: "I do not 
know why they should be so bitter against Mr. Davis. He only did what he could 
to establish the independence of the South, and the rest of us tried to do the 
same. If he is guilty of any crime, the rest of us are equally guilty." 

We owe it to ourselves and to posterity that we should build this monumeni 
in the old capital of the Confederacy, and let it proclaim to future generations 
that our beloved chief was no "rebel" and no "traitor." but as pure a patriot as 
the world ever saw. 

Now, I know that I am sometimes called "an reconstructed rebel," but I 
emphatically deny that either you or I were ever "rebels" at all. 

George Washington and his compatriots were "rebels" because they fought 
against properly constituted authority, but we were not "rebels," because we 
fought to uphold the constitution of our fathers. 



NO REBELS IN THE SOUTH. 

If there were any rebels in that war they did not live in the South, but north 
of the Potomac and the Ohio. They were the men who denounced the constitu- 
tion of our fathers as "a league with death and a covenant with hell," and who 



SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. 43 

fought to overthrow the great principles of constitutional freedom, for which 
Jefferson Davis and Robert Lee drew their stainless swords. 

And since we furled our glorious battle flags, parked our blackened guns 
(nearly all of them wrested from the enemy in battle), stacked our bright 
muskets and gave our paroles, there have been no more law-abiding, peacable, 
better citizens of the states and of the United States on this continent than 
these old Confederate soldiers. 

Our honored commander — the gallant, chivalric Gordon, one of Lee's 
trusted Paladins — but voiced the sentiment of the people of our Southland when 
he stood up on the floor of the senate and pledged us to stand by the govern- 
ment in suppressing rebellion at Chicago. 

And when our "lame lion," the peerless orator. Senator John W. DanieL 




J. WILLIAM JONES. 

of Virginia, offered his resolutions endorsing the president in enforcing the 
law, he but echoed the sentiments of his Confederate comrades. 

Yes, we are all loyal citizens of these United States, ready to unite with our 
brethren of every section to make our common country the grandest, the freest, 
the most prosperous that the sun shines upon. "Old Glory!" Why should we 
not march under its folds and glory in its lustre? It was designed from the 
coat of arms of our Washington. "The Star-Spangled Banner was written by 
a Southern man, when Southern troops had just won a glorious victory on 
Southern soil. Our Taylor, our Scott, our Jefferson Davis, our J. E. Johnston, 
our Robert Edward Lee, our Magruder, our Albert Sidney Johnston, our Stone- 
wall Jackson, our Beauregard, and others of that brilliant galaxy of Southern 
oflacers bore it on the most glorious fields of Mexico and planted it on the walls 
of the Montezumas. 



44 SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. 

It is true that we fought against it for four years, when it represented what 
was abhorrent to our views of constitutional freedom, but it is our flag still, and 
we can join with heart and soul in singing: 

"■ The Star-Spang-led Banner, 
Oh, long- may it wave 
O'er the land of the free 
And the home of the brave." 

But while this is true let it be distinctly understood that we are not going 
around with our fingers in our mouths, whimpering and whining and asking 
pardon and promising to do so no more. But with head erect we look the world 
squarely in the eyes and say: "We thought we were right in the brave old days, 
when to do battle was sacred duty, but now, in the light of subsequent events, 
we know we were right," and with malice for none and charity for all, we are 
asking pardon of no living man. 

We are not ashamed of the cause for which we fought; of the men who led 
us, or of the fight we made against "overwhelming numbers and resources." Let 
us embody these sentiments in a noble monument to our grand old president. 

We have already in the capital of our confederacy monuments to our 
Christian soldiers, Stonewall Jackson, and gallant A. P. Hill, and peerless 
Robert Lee, and the true hero of the war, the private soldier of the Confed- 
eracy. Let us now cap it all with this monument, and make it worthy of Jef- 
ferson Davis and the cause he loved so well. 

That noble report on history presented on yesterday by that gallant, glo- 
rious soldier and stainless gentleman, Stephen D. Lee, embodies principles that 
we ought to carry home with us and put in practice until every Northern school 
history is banished from our schools, and every book slandering our Confederate 
people, our leaders, and our cause, is banished from our libraries and our homes. 
Let us also utilize the enthusiasm of this hour and put in granite and bronze 
the life-speaking embodiment of these principles. I have traveled 1428 miles to 
come here, and I would readily travel 14,000 miles to witness the scene here on 
yesterday, when we hailed and greeted the "daughter of the Confederacy," and 
she acknowledged it with that queenly grace which made us crown her queen of 
our hearts. God bless her. 

But I shall count it a higher privilege still if I may carrj^ back home the 
as^jurance that the veterans of our Southland will unite, hearts and hands, in 
honoring themselves by rearing this monument. 

It has been already delayed too long. Let us now make a united effort that 
shall accomplish it in the near future. Many camps and communities propose 
collections for this object on the approaching 3d of June, the anniversary of the 
birth of Jel'lerson Davis. 

This is appropriate and well, and I urge that this plan be generally carried 
out. 

But there ought to be some expression here and now of our purpose to raise 
this fund at once. 

I knew some years ago an old deacon who got his church out of many a 
financial strait by the stereotyped speech: "Well, brethren, the way to do a 
thing is to do it. I will give ten dollars. How much will you give. Brother 
Smith?" 

Let us now call the roll of our camps, and have responses worthy of the 
cause and of ourselves. 




JKFFERSON Davis in 1866. 



46 SPONSOR SOUVENIR AI^BUM. 

Dr. Jones then engineered a subscription that ran up to over ten 
thousand dollars, and it was confidently believed that, had there been time, 
this sum would have been more than doubled, and that the enthusiasm 
engendered will result in a very large increase of the fund. 

GENERAL WISE'S SPEECH. 

When nominations for the place of the next meeting were declared 
in order, General Peyton F. Wise, of Virginia, ascended the platform and 
delivered the following splendid oration: 

After a weary journej' of 1400 miles, I rejoice to be at last upon the soil of 
Texas. I rejoice that although I am here for the first time, and at the end of so 
long an interval from my mother state, I am yet as much at home here as there. 
I rejoice most of all that I am a veteran among veterans of the best army that 
<?>ver trocl the earth. My wife, who is a veteran, too, in every fiber of her, except 
her years, put my badge on and smoothed the wrinkles out of my Lee camp 
uniform and bade me come hither upon the plea that these encampments must, in 
a sense, soon cease, and that the number of those who attend them must be fewer 
and fewer as the years roll by, until they all become a tale that has been told. 
Not so, I told her, with a little tear over the constancy, the fortitude, the devotion, 
the pluck of the women. I stand here to-day in the midst of ranks that never 
were or will be broken by the loss of a single soldier, true to his cause and his 
home. All the clods of all the valleys, with all their rest-breathing daisies, nay, 
Ossa piled upon Peleon of superincumbent burial, could never keep away from 
his roll-call and his bivouac a single brave heart that ever stood for honor upon 
the field of honor. Lee and Jackson, the Johnstons and Hood, Stuart and For- 
rest, are just as real as the splendid soldier who wields yonder baton to-day. The 
choir that raised the rebel yell never lost a note. All its music in highest reg- 
ister goes sounding down the ages because it is the paean of glory. The Con- 
federate flag was never folded, was never weary, although the patriot Ryan told 
us so, because it was always symbolled and will always symbol immortal liber- 
ties whose fitting home is its stars. It will float forever upon every heaven- 
kissing breeze. 

I am at home here, because I am the brother of every man who went to im- 
mortal glory at the bidding of him who once led Hood's fighting brigade; of every 
man, of all those who offered the Sterling Price of unwearying constancy and 
devotion for the safety and honor of the common heritage; of every bishop who 
doffed the priestly garment and rallied around him the Creole and the Anglo- 
Saxon, the children of the civil and the common law alike, to be in serried ranks 
in the very van of liberty; of every Mississippian who followed the lead of that 
Lee who, in war emulated the highest glories of a name which seems to have 
always been associated with what is best and truest in arms, and who survived in 
peace to illustrate that the gentleness of woman is always the associate of the 
bravest heart; of every man who never became restless in the doing of his 
heart-work, if only because fighting Joe Wheeler was in the lead and would 
never stay while the soil of his country was encumbered by a foe; of every man 
who ever dozed under a palmetto tree, to be more alert when Hampton rescued 
from the red field of carnage the white plume of Stuart and kept it always stain- 
less in his heart and upon his head; of every man of the land of Macon who found 
a new inspiration in the name of one of the "noblest Romans of them all" 




SCENES ON = 

Buffalo dayou- 



Houston. 



48 SPONSOR SOUVENIR AIvBUM. 

that D. H. Hill, upon whose countenance dwelt in comeliest fashion the light and 
smile of battle, because the Tar Heel pathway was the road to duty; of every 
countryman of him who made Shiloh a tale to be told forever because the ablest 
tactician, the most princely form, sat upon his horse, in the very forefront of 
the fight, calmly sat with a smile upon his face, dealing triumph to his men 
till the last refluence of his heart's blood surged upon his spurs, whose watch, 
wherever it may be to-day, whether in worthy or unworthy hands, will tell the 
time of day only to the highest manhood, the most Christian knight; of every 
follower of him who was and is the hero of the common people, the example' 
of the fact that in the Forrests as in courts are to be found the Napoleons with a 
star, and finally of every comrade of to-day who hangs upon the lips of him who 
was the bow of promise to every man in the Southern army who feared that 
danger might come too close to Lee, and who has lived to show how a man sur- 
charged with the most loving memories of a past that was filled with the glories 
and liberties of his section, may be the most orderly, the most faithful, the most 
devoted servant of the whole country. God bless Gordon and keep his scarred 
face long as the seal of a holy consecration. 

And, finally, you are my brothers, and Virginia is your own, who ever saw 
the gleam of the best and bluest and truest saber that ever flashed athwart the 
sky of war, who fattened her soil with your blood and made her illustrious for- 
ever by your immortal valor. Amen, and Amen! 

I come to invite you to make your next encampment in my city; to sound the 
bugle call of another and a different "On to Richmond;" to those who have a 
right to be there, with or without invitation, because they shed their blood to 
save, not to win her. Her official bodies, her council and her chamber of com- 
merce greet you thro' us and bid you come and stand upon her hills, and by her 
flowing river; to see how the city of your love, which is your very own, the 
chosen seat of your Confederacy, has fared as a trust in their hands; how they 
have built her up in forms of beauty and things of life to be worthy of your re- 
newed adoption. Her women, not less true because some men have, faint- 
hearted, fallen by the wayside and no longer care for the goal, not less sweet be- 
cause they no longer feed upon the sorghum of those times, not less gorgeously 
appareled because they no longer attire themselves in the homespun and the 
makeshifts of the good old days, but always wearing the true colors and their 
hearts upon their sleeves, whether balloon or skin tight, ask you with all their 
might and main and with all their dear hearts to come. Fifty thousand of your 
dead, who sleep in Hollywood and Oakwood, who are the children of every state 
in the Confederacy, ask to have you commune with them to catch the inspiration, 
which will make the New South, it may be in fairer flowers in more fields, in 
fatter cattle upon larger hills, in busier hum of more varied industries, but 
continue the Old South always in all that tends to the high manhood and makes, 
to the real glory. 

The very stones of her streets cry aloud to be trodden again by those who 
traversed them on their way to her battle fronts — to every field where charged to 
victory the army of Northern Virginia, and where swelled upon the air the chorus 
of the rebel yell. 

Her monuments majectically summon you to come. In her eastern section, 
upon the hill of the church, where broke from Henry's frenzied lips the crip of 
"Liberty or death," stands in human form the echo of that cry— the private 
soldier of the Confederate states, the soldier that, multiplied, whether hungry 
and tentless or fed and sheltered, whether travel-stained and weary or fresh 




The Houston Light Guards, 
company and armory. 



50 SPONSOR SOUVENIR AI^BUM. 

from slumber upon the bosom of his mother earth, made the best army that the 
world ever knew. The earth cannot contain his glory, because it ascends to 
heaven, and because he is unique— the one soldier that earth ever produced 
who was general as well as soldier. He stands, they say, upon Pompey's Pillar. 
Not so. He was no selfish conqueror. His lofty column is his own; standing 
upon his own soil, made of stones dug from the bowels of his own hills, and 
fashioned by his own people. The rags, thank God, have droped from his limbs. 
He is as jaunty and trim as the smartest blue coat of them all. The lean and 
hungry look has fled from his face. The inspired artist has obeyed Christ's in- 
junction to "feed His lambs." His back is to the Chickahominy because the 
enemy is no longer there; his face is turned toward his city, because he wants 
to watch the business of his people, and watch to see if it be fairly and squarely 
done. His musket is not as bright as of yore. It has been bronzed to keep it 
always ready to be the impregnable defense of the liberties of his people. 

Here in the central station, in the chief seat, is the best piece of monumental 
art in all the world. Its crowning feature is he, who, surrounded by the best 
statesmen of the revolutionary era, and although sitting upon a war horse that 
sniffeth the battle from afar, is yet majestic and dignified, himself pointing the 
ways of peace and war and above all that freedom is the surest foundation of 
progress ard happiness. Aye, he is the father of his country. Hardby, tjie gift of 
the mother of the Anglo-Saxon people to the best representatives of the Anglo- 
Saxon race that ever trod this globe, stands he of the Cromwell mold, he, the 
Old Testament Christian, the sword of the Lord and of Gideon upon him, ready 
as ever to smite hip and thigh; and he shall stand there forever, a Stonewall to 
memorialize the way in which Virginia and her sisters should be defended. 

There, upon a splendid boulevard more beautiful than the elysian fields 
which lead to Napoleon's Arch of Triumph, or than the linden which shade the 
statue of Frederick the Great, stands a martial figure, ever alert to catch the 
last order of Jackson which rang out like a clarion just before he crossed over 
the river to rest under the shade trees — "Let A. P. Hill prepare for action." 

Yonder in the West, in the region of the setting sun, with magnificent poise 
of figure and face as of soul, fit as always to lead the hosts of the earth, rides 
Lee, riding towards the jocund day that stands tiptoe upon the peak of paradise, 
when he shall be fitter still, fit to marshal the very hosts of heaven. 

Anon will rise the simulacrum of the bold and fearless rider, the fiercest' 
paladin, and the gentlest gentleman, the man with the nerve of the whirlwind, 
whether he kept a dainty slipper from the mud or held the common weal of a 
nation upon the couch of his lance, the smile of utmost joy on his face, whether 
he listened to the strains of Swinny's banjo or charged better than the Six Hun- 
dred at Balaklava, the very presentiment, let it be, of our own darling Jeb Stuart. 
But there is a monument which shall be, but which God save the mark, is yet 
unbuilded, which most of all, orders you to come. Did I say yet to be builded? 
Again, I say, God save the mark. By the riverside of Hendrick Hudson's fiowing 
river, just away from the busiest hum of the most multitudinous city, just on 
the skirts of a progress seemingly the most splendid because it is the most 
selfish, rises apace an erection, the free gift, without gleaning from the public 
stare, of a free people, lifted above their progress, stealing away from their hum, 
to be grateful to the savior of the people's Union. An illustrious soldier and 
president is to be canonized in the affections of a people every way composite, 
and the expression of that affection is to be a heaven-kissing monument. Let 
Grant's monument rise, the higher the better, the sooner the more fitting. He 




Officers of the Houston Light Guard. 



52 SPONSOR SOUVENIR AIvBUM. 

deserved it. He was not composite; he was genuine, unadulterated, unlimited 
Saxon pluck and pertinacity, fighting always in the splendid way in which God 
gave him to fight for the thing he believed in and loved. He deserved it, even 
from us, if only because in the moment of his triumph he mounted no triumphal 
car but said, "Let us have peace," and acted it. But for him and dead Lincoln, 
what would have become of the Union, even after the war? 

But shall his monument arise quicker than our monument, the monument 
of us, the homogenous, us, the best expression of the all-subduing, the Anglo- 
Saxon race; us, the most capable, because the most inspired; us, the most obli- 
gated, because the most blessed; us, who love our public men, because we make 
them and they are part of us; us, who are inspired by their examples, because 
like the south wind upon a bank of violets, which steals and gives their odor, 
we teach them what to inspire. 

What, then, is our monument, and by the name of what one of us shall it 
be called, although it be the monument of every one of us? It shall be a monu- 
ment to Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate states of America, 
in the capital of the Confederate states of America; and the prime 
duty of this grand encampment in the spring of 1896, when men's 
hearts are budding like the flowers and turning to love, to lay its corner-stone 
in Richmond. Who, then, was Jefferson Davis? Born in the north of us in the 
land which Virginia gave to the United States, he lived in the south of us. He 
knew us, on every side of us, in every part of us. Inspiring and inspired by us, 
impregnated by us and filling us in turn, he became the very type and father 
of us. He had known every joy which can fill the human heart. Blessed is his 
store, thrice blessed is his home; he led that happiest of all lives, the life of a 
cultured country gentleman. First found in public he was leading his Mississippi- 
ans to immortal fame upon the plains of Buena Vista. He became in turn repre- 
sentative, senator, cabinet officer, president, his name blown about the world as 
the leader of established order, of a new essay of the Anglo-Saxon race, in freer 
government, as the commander in chief of an army the like of which for valor and 
fortitude the world had never seen. By and by the shadows came. At the very pin- 
naclel of his freedom, the gyves were put upon his wrists. At the moment when, 
at Fortress 'Monroe, he had learned to mount with the eagle and to look with 
eagle's eyes upon the sun, the sun went down and a bull's-eye lantern scorched 
his very eyeballs. In the very nick of his truth to his people, to liberty and to law, 
he was dubbed a traitor and commended to brand and penalty as a felon.. He was 
the vicar of your manacles, of your tortured eyesight, of your imputed treason 
and felony. He bore his suffering with all the pluck of Confederate armies, with 
all the grace and sweetness and dignity of Lee. He was worthy of you. But 
there were righteous judges in those days, the charges slunk away, ashamed to 
pollute his presence, and his suffering ended. Once more he is the inmate of a 
country home, once more blessed by the woman who exalts and who consoles, 
in the person of his noble wife, in the person of his noble daughter, who has 
become the daughter of every one of us because she was born in our Confederacy 
and because she was his daughter, and because she is one of the noblest of all 
noble women. There he lived until he was gathered to our other dead, and was 
brought to be buried on the banks of that river which brought the first of the 
Saxons to our shore, and murmurs its sweet requiem to one of the best and last 
of them. It is his monument that is our monument, whose corner-stone you shall 
lay in 1896. Will you, can you, refuse? I think not. 



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INCIDENTS OF SPECIAL INTEREST. 

RECEPTION AT LIGHT GUARD ARMORY. 

Miss Winnie Davis attended a reception at the armory of the famous 
Houston Light Guard, on Wednesday evening, given in her honor. 
Thousands of people gathered in and about the great building, eager to 
grasp the hand of the daughter of the Confederacy — thousands more 
than could get inside the hall. It was calculated that at one time Ave thous- 
and people were gathered upon the streets outside. Seeing the disap- 
pointment pictured upon their faces, Colonel Lombard, of New Orleans, 
a friend of Miss Davis, conducted her to the balcony, where she could at 
least be seen by the multitude below. The cheering with which they 
greeted her appearance showed the reverent love held by the people of the 
South for the daughter of the man who suffered all for their sake and the 
sake of principle. After seeing Miss Davis, the outside crowd quickly and 
quietly dispersed. 

A wonderfully touching incident occurred during this reception. 
A short, sparely built old gentleman, with hair and beard of snowy white- 
ness, approached Miss Davis and, taking her by the hand, said: "My 
child, it was these arms that carried you into the prison at Fortress Mon- 
roe to visit your father when he was imprisoned there. Ah, how tenderly 
he took you from me, and how lovingly he kissed and fondled you. And 
when you had stayed with him the allotted time, I bore you back again 
to your mother." 

Throwing her arms about the old veteran's neck, the "baby girl'^ 
of the South's great chieftain sobbed upon his shoulder, while down his 
cheeks, which the finger of time has failed to wrinkle, the flowing tears 
couresd from eyes unused to weep. 

The little old gentleman was ex-Governor Frank R. Lubbock, of 
Texas, who was with President Davis at his capture and during his con- 
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HERE never was anything like it, is what everybody 
says. There never was such bunting, there never 
were such banners and decorations, and so many 
things to stir the heart and dim the eye! The win- 
dows are filled with objects of interest, many of them 
beautiful, and many more filled with pathos. Here 
v/as a stained and tattered banner, the legend be- 
neath it telling in what bloody battle it was borne 
and where shot and shell tore through it; and the 
old soldiers gather about and gaze at it with mourn- 
interest, and tell one another, "I was there — 
marched behind that old flag!" There was a sword, 
rusting in its scabbard now for many a day, while the 
hands that drew it once are folded away in their last repose. 
Here w^as an old-fashioned spinning wheel, w^ith the rolls and cards at 
hand, and the woman knitting an old-fashioned sock of coarse, home- 
made thread, in quite the old-fashioned way; and there in another window 
were the old cannon balls and rusty shot and shell that were the ghastly 
trophies of old battle fields. Flags, guns, worn-out gray suits — what 
liistories are connected with them all! No wonder the throngs of visitors 
pass by the elegant displays of goods to gaze upon these patriotic me- 
mentoes of the struggle that took so much out of their lives ! 

The most pathetic feature of the reunion is the tender feeling the 
veterans entertain for the daughter of their old leader. No woman in the 
history of the world was ever given such homage; was ever adopted into 
the inmost hearts of an entire people and looked upon as the beloved 
child of the country. It was touching beyond description to see the grav- 
haired veterans struggling to get near enough to pat her hand, and weep- 

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ing as they touched it. The American people are supposed to be incapable 
of hero worship, and to hold no one sacred from criticism; yet this one 
woman is the idol of a people, worshiped with a chivalrous devotion. 
''Hurrah for our Winnie!" cried one of the graybeards, waving his hat in 
air; and by his side another shouted, "God bless our little girl!" Down 
the steps of the armory came two old men, rough and poor and hard- 
handed, but the tears were shining on their homely faces and giving them 
a kind of glory in spite of their homeliness. "Did you see her?" asked one 
of them with a shaken voice; and the other cried, "Yes, I did, and shook 
her pretty little hand, God bless her!" Even the old negro who managed to 
reach her and to shake that ready and gracious hand, cried with a smile 
that shone through tears, "God bless you, Miss Winnie, I come from ole 
Mississippi, an' I've been on your pa's place many a time." No woman 
has been so honored — few women ought to be so happy. 




A BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE. 

There was a scene enacted at the reception of Miss Winnie Davis at 
the Capitol Hotel on Thursday which brought tears to the eyes of many 
who witnessed it. Judge Norman G. Kittrell had escorted his mother and 
her grandmother (the latter Mrs. Sarah W. Goree, who is in her eighty- 
ninth year and who had traveled more than one hundred miles to attend the 
reunion, thirty miles of the distance by private conveyance). Mrs. Goree 
had five sons in the Confederate army, three in Hood's brigade, all of 
whom came back wounded, while her eldest, Major Thomas J. Goree, was 
on Longstreet's staff from Bull Run to Appomattox, and the fifth served 
in the trans-Mississippi department. Three of her sons were here to meet 
her. She was most graciously received by Mrs. Rice, and her clear black 
eyes and placid but intelligent face, set in a lace cap, the white ribbons of 
which fell over her black satin dress of becoming pattern, made a picture 
that attracted instant attention, and she held a levee second only in pro- 
portion to that of Miss Davis herself. 



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When Mrs. Goree was presented to Mrs. J. C. Hutcheson the latter 
at once led her forward and presented her to Miss Davis, who received her 
with the utmost grace and cordiality. Turning for the while from the 
hundreds thronging around her, she bent low and held the hand of the 
venerable lady in both her own, and assured her again and again of the 
pleasure she felt in meeting her. When the last pressure was given Mrs. 
Goree raised the hand of Miss Davis to her lips and kissed it. Whereupon 
Miss Davis said: ''Oh, no; it is not for you to kiss my hand, but for me 
to kiss yours," and still holding the thin hand of the grandmother in hers 
she knelt to the floor and kissed it tenderly and with a caress well nigh 
holy — thus paying- the tribute of a noble woman to the mother of five 
Confederate soldiers. Such a scene is worthy of the poet's pen and the 
artist's brush. Many an eye moistened as the scene was so touchingly 
enacted. 




GrcNERAiv W11.UAM P. Hardeman. 

" OI,D GOTCH." 

CANE PRESENTATION. 

The parlor of the Hutchins House was the scene of an afifecting 
incident. Green's Brigade Association, just at adjournment, decided to 
present General W. P. Hardeman a cane. Miss Lydia Kirk, ''the 
daughter of the brigade," was selected to make the presentation. Miss 
Lydia played her part well, until her feelings overcame her, when she 
threw her arms around the old man's neck, kissed him and melted down 
in tears. The general, "Old Gotch,'' as the boys call him, gave way to 



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his feelings, crying like a child; and, to make the tableaux complete, all 
the grizzly old "Confeds" — a parlor full of them — surrounded "Old 
Gotch" and Miss Lydia. As one of them expressed it, "Did you ever see 
such a gang of blubbering old fools as we are?" 




Thomas M. Murfree. 

Thomas M. Murfree, of Troy, Alabama, was the most conspicuous 
as a veteran private at Houston. He moved about with an elastic, boyish 
step in the Confederate gray coat that appears in his picture. He is a 
native Tennesseean, but his family moved to Alabama in 1845, when he 
was two years old. 

Murfree enlisted in the Independent Rifles in 1861, which was a part 
of the Sixth Alabama Regiment, to the command of which General John 
B. Gordon was elected in the reorganization at Yorktown, Virginia. 
Comrade Murfree was not absent from his command, except on detached 
duty, until his transfer to the Tennessee army in 1863. 



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This is the identical coat that Miirfree took from his body to pillow 
General Gordon's head when so severely wounded at wSharpsburg. It 
was at that time General Gordon thought he had been killed, and wdiile 
meditating upon his death, he fancied that if the mind was so clear it 
might enable him to move the dead foot. Anyhow, he concluded to try it. 
After the movement of the foot, he realized that he could move his body, 
and was not dead. Murfree was made lieutenant in Loring's division, 
and was at Franklin, Nashville and at Bentonville, North Carolina. He 
was offered one hundred dollars for his old gray coat. 




Dr. Hyam Cohkx with Fi^ag of Camp Winxte Davi.' 



One of the most conspicuous veterans at Houston was Dr. Hyam 
Cohen, of Waxahatchie, Texas. Although small, he stood erect, under 
a silk hat that he would not have worn thirty-three years ago, "dressed 
like a Philadelphia lawyer," and carried, wherever he went, the magnifi- 
cent flag that he holds in the picture. The very handsome flag presented 
to the camp by him is forty by fifty-six inches. Upon one side, which is 
crimson silk, is a splendid painting, which is a finely executed likeness of 
General Robert E. Lee on "Traveler," sword in hand, eyes flashing fire, 



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as he rusehd to the front at the "Wilderness." Amid smoke and bursting 
shell is the background. In the foreground is a wounded soldier reeling. 
dismounted cannon, and other war material. On the reverse side, which is 
Confederate blue, are the fine gold letters: ''Camp Winnie Davis, Waxa- 
hatchie, Texas, U. C. A'., Organized February lo, 1890." The flag has 
a deep, gold fringe, and is mounted on an elegant staff eight feet long, 
surmounted by a gold spear, from the base of which hang two heavy gold 
cords with massive gold tassels. The design, painting and mounting 
were made by Professor L. L. Cohen, a brother of Dr. Cohen. 




(5piE '-^^EimiOK ^'^SOCMTIOK. 




N 1894 the citizens of Houston, having deter- 
mined that the reunion for 1895 should be held 
in their city, sent to the reunion at Birmingham, 
for the purpose of bringing about that result, 
the following committee: 

Mayor John T. Browne, chairman; B. R. 
Warner, secretary and treasurer; L. T. Noyes, 
J. H. Bright, W. H. Crank, Sr., Will Lambert, 
Norman G. Kittrell, R. M. Johnston, C. C. Bea- 
vens, G. H. Bringhurst, J. R. Waties, S. D. 
Moore, Robert Adair, T. U. Lubbock. 

Governor J. S. Hogg also attended and was 
a guest of the committee, which traveled in a special car, retaining same 
for use at Birmingham. 

After the committee had returned home, having accomplished its 
mission, the citizens set about preparing for the meeting, which they knew 
would be the biggest that had ever assembled in Texas. The United Con- 
federate Veterans' Reunion Association was formed with the following 
officers: President, W. D. Cleveland; first vice president, John T. 
Browne; second vice president, H. W. Garrow; treasurer, T. W. House; 
secretary, B. R. Warner. 

An executive committee was selected from the association to take 
charge of all the details of the reunion, as follows : W. A. Childress, chair- 
man and general manager; B. R. Warner, secretary; R. M. Johnston, 
F. A. Reichardt, Spencer Hutchins, H. F. MacGregor, L. T. Noyes, Wil- 
liam Christian, J. M. Cotton, H. B. Rice. 

Sub-committees were appointed, with chairmen as follows: 
Public Comfort — J. R. Waties, chairman. 
Amusements — Norman G. Kittrell, chairman. 
Decoration — S. R. S. Andres, chairman. 
Finance — T. W. House, chairman. 

Transportation — Charles B. Peck, chairman, vice C. Lombardi, re- 
signed on account of absence. 

Invitation — John T. Browne, chairman. 
Building — R. D. Gribble, chairman. 

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Reception — Dick Dowling Camp; Will Lambert, chairman. 

General chairman Ladies' Auxiliary, Mrs. S. W. Sydnor; Miss Mary 
Root, secretary. 

Press Reception — W. W. Dexter, chairman. 

Military — H. B. Rice, chairman. 

Ex-Federals — A. K. Taylor, chairman. 

Grounds — Richard Cocke, chairman. 

Ladies' Reception — Mrs. J. C. Hutcheson, chairman. 

Ladies' Military Banquet — Mrs. J. F. Dickson, chairman. 

Ladies' Press Banquet — Mrs. J. A. Huston, chairman. 

Ladies' Decoration — Mrs. L. T. Noyes, chairman. 

All these committees labored hard to make the affair a success, many 
of the most diligent and intelligent workers being those whose names 
appear upon no official roster. 

Two of these unofficial helpers who did valiant service were Mrs. R. 
Rutherford and Mr. Harvey T. D. Wilson. 

Mrs. Rutherford organized and carried out a scheme by which all 
veterans who so desired would be furnished their meals free while in the 
city, and many an old soldier was thus hospitably entertained without 
money and without price. 

Mr. Wilson, who is the owner of a beautiful driving park, situated in 
the suburbs of the city, donated to the association its use as a camp 
ground during the reunion. 

GALVESTON. 

No account of the great reunion, however brief, would be adequate 
that did not include the royal hospitality of Galveston. Round trip excur- 







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sions were given over the fifty miles at one dollar. Camp McGruder, one 
of the best Confederate organizations, turned out daily to give welcome 
and possession. Free excurz-ions were given by boat to the jetties several 
miles out, and to other points, and free chowder, with cofTee, etc., was 



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served near one of the pleasant lakes on the island to the multitude. 

There was not a veteran there, perhaps, who will fail to recall, in 
connection with this reunion, in especial gratitude, their fraternity and 
open-hearted hospitality. 




£l\'L\G (JOKFEDEIMTE (§^"E1«L5. 




HERE were during the war four hundred and 
ninety-eight generals of the several grades 
commissioned in the Confederate army. Of 
this number the following still sunave: 

Lieutenant Generals. 

Stephen D. Lee, Starkville, Miss.; James Long- 
street, Gainesville, Ga.; Simon B. Buckner, Frank- 
fort, Ky.; Joseph Wheeler, Wheeler, Ala.; Alexander 

P. Stewart, Chickamauga, Ga.; Wade Hampton, Columbia, 

S. C; John B. Gordon, Atlanta, Ga. 

Major Generals. 

Giistavus W. Smith, New York; Lafayette McLaws, 
51' Savannah, Ga.; Samuel D. French, Winter Park, Ala.; John H. 

Forney, Jenifer, Ala.; Dabney H. Maury, Richmond, Va.; 
Henry Heth, Antietam battle field survey; J. L. Kemper, Orange Court House, 
Va.; Robert F. Hoke, Raleigh, N. C; Fitzhugh Lee, Glasgow, Ya.; W. B. Bate, 
United States senate, Tennessee; M. C. Butler, United States senate, South Caro- 
lina; E. C. Walthall, United States senate Mississippi; L. L. Lomax, Washing- 
ton, D. C; P. B. M. Young, Cartersville, Ga.; T. L. Rosser, Charlottesville, Va.; 
W. W. Allen, Montgomery, Ala.; S. B. Maxey, Paris, Tex.; William Mahone, Pe- 
tersburg Va.; G. W. Custis Lee, Lexington, Va.; William B. Taliaferro, Glouces- 
ter, Va.; W^illiam T. Martin, Natchez, Miss.; C. J. Polignac, Orleans, France; 
E. M. Law, Yorkville, S. C; Richard Gatlin, Fort Smith, Ark.; Matt Ransom, 
United States senate. North Carolina; J. A. Smith, Jackson, Miss.; William H. 
Forney, Jacksonville, Ala. 

Brigadier Generals. 

George T. Anderson, Anniston, Ala.; Frank C. Armstrong, Washington, D. 
C; E. P. Alexander, Savannah, Ga.; Arthur S. Bagby, Texas; Laurence S. 
Baker, Suffolk, Va.; Pinckney D. Bowles, Alabama; Rufus Barringer, Charlotte, 
N. C; Seth M. Barton, Fredericksburg, Va.; John Bratton, White Oak. S. C: J. 
L. Brent, Baltimore, Md.; C. A. Battle, Alabama; R. L. T. Beale, Hague. Va.; 
Hamilton P. Bee, San Antonio, Tex.; W. R. Boggs, Winston, N. C: Tyiee H. 
Bell, Tennessee; William L. Cabell, Dallas, Tex.; Ellison Capers, Columbia. S. C; 
James R. Chalmers, Vicksburg, Miss.; Thomas L. Clingman, Asheville, N. C; 
George B. Cosby, Sacramento, Cal.; Francis M. Cockrell, United States senate, 
Missouri; Phil Cook, Atlanta, Ga.; John B. Clark. Jr.. Rockville, Md.: Alfred 
Gumming, Augusta, Ga.; William R. Cox, Raleigh, N. C; Joseph Davis, Missis- 
sippi City, Miss.; H. B. Davidson, California; T. P. Dockery, New York City; 
Basil W. Duke, Louisville, Ky.; John Echols, Louisville, Ky.; C. A. Evans, 

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Atlanta, Ga.; Samuel W. Ferguson, Greenville, Miss.; J. J. Finley, Florida; 
D. M. Frost, St. Louis, Mo.; Richard M. Gano, Dallas, Tex.; James Z. George, 
Jackson, Miss.; William L. Gardner, Memphis, Tenn.; G. W. Gordon, Memphis, 
Tenn.; D. C. Govan, Arkansas; Johnson Hagood, Barnwell, S. C; George P. Har- 
rison, Sr., Auburn, Ala.; A. T. Hawthorne, Dallas, Tex.; Bppa Hunton, United 
States senator, "Warrenton, Va.; William P. Hardeman, Austin, Tex.; N. H. 
Harris, Vicksburg, Miss.; George B. Hodge, Kentucky; Louis Hebert, Breaux, 
La.; J. D. Imboden, Southwest Virginia; Henry R. Jackson, Savannah, Ga.; 
William H, Jackson, Nashville, Tenn.; Bradley T. Johnson, Baltimore, Md.; 
A. R. Johnson, Burnet, Tex.; George D. Johnston, Washington, D. C; Robert D. 
Johnston, Birmingham, Ala.; J. D. Kennedy, Camden, S. C; William H. King, 
Austin, Tex.; William W. Kirkland, New York; James H. Lane, North Carolina; 
A. R. Lawton, Savannah, Ga.; T. M. Logan, Richmond, Va. ; Robert Lowry, Jack- 
son, Miss.; Joseph H. Lewis. Frankfort, Ky.; W. PI. Lewis, Tarboro, N. C; Wil- 
liam McComb, Gordonsville, La.; Samuel G. McGowan, Abbeville, S. C; E. 
McNair, Hattiesburg, Miss.; Dandridge McRae, Searcy, Ark.; John T. Morgan, 
United States senate, Alabama; T. T. Mumford, Uniontown, Ala.; George Manney, 
Nashville, Tenn.; B. McGlathan, Savannah, Ga.; John McCausland, Mason C. H., 
W. Va.; W. R. Miles, Mississippi; W^m. Miller, Florida; John C. Moore, Texas; 
Francis T. Nichols, New Orleans, La.; R. L. Page, Norfolk, Va.; Vv^. H. Payne, 
Warrenton, Va.; W. F. Perry, Glendale, Ky. ; Roger A. Pryor, New York City; 

C. W. Phyfer, Mississippi; W. H. Parsons, Philadelphia, Pa.; E. W. Pettus, 
Selma, Ala.; W. A. Quarles, Clarkesville, Tenn.; B. H. Robertson, Washington, 

D. C; F. H. Robertson, Waco, Tex.; George W. Rains, Augusta, Ga.; Daniel Rug- 
gles, Fredericksburg, Va.; Charles A. Ronald, Blacksburg, Va.; D. H. Reynolds, 
Arkansas City, Ark.; Wm. P. Roberts, Raleigh, N. C; L. S. Ross, College Sta- 
tion, Tex.; Jake Sharp, Jackson, Miss.; Joe Shelby, Carthage, Mo.; Charles M. 
Shelley, Birmingham, Ala.; James E. Slaughter, Washington, D. C; F. A. 
Shoup, Sewanee, Tenn.; Thomas B. Smith, Nashville, Tenn.; G. M. Sorrell, Sa- 
vannah, Ga.; George H. Stewart, Baltimore, Md.; Marcellus A. Stovall, Augusta, 
Ga.; Edward L. Thomas, Washington, D. C; W. R. Terry, Richmond, Va.; J. C. 
Tappan, Helena, Ark.; Robert B. Vance, Asheville, N. C; A. J. Vaughan, Memphis, 
Tenn.; James A. Walker, Wytheville, Va. ; D. A. Weisger, Richmond, Va.; C. G. 
Wharton, New River, Va,; Marcus J. Wright, Washington, D. C; G. J. Wright. 
Griffin, Ga.; W. S. Walker, Florida; H. H. Walker, New York; W. H. Wallace, 
Columbia, S. C; T. N. Waul, Galveston, Tex.; John S. Williams, Mount Sterling, 
Ky.; Zebulon York, Baton Rouge, La.; W. H. Young, San Antonio, Tex.; T. W. 
Frazier, Memphis, Tenn.; B. H. Thomas, Atlanta, Ga.; Robert Macklay, Cook's 
Landing. La.; J. R. Jones. West Virginia. 





Hon. John H. Reagax, of Texas. 



EX-POSTMASTER GEXERAL OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES — THE SOLE 
SURVIVOR OF PRESIDENT DAVIS' CABINET. 




United Goa^fedeimte VETEKiiN5. 



UST OF OFFICERS. 

General John B. Gordon, general commanding, Atlanta, Ga.; headquarters 
during reunion at Hutchins house, Houston, Tex. 

Adjutant general and chief of staff. Major General George Moorman, New 
Orleans, La. 

Assistant adjutant general, Colonel Joseph A. Chalaron, New Orleans, La. 

Quartermaster general, Major General J. F. Shipp, Chattanooga, Tenn. 

Assistant quartermaster general. Brigadier General E. D. Willett, Missis- 
sippi. 

Inspector general. Major General Robert F. Hoke, North Carolina. 

Judge advocate generals. Major General Matthew C. Butler, South Carolina, 
and Major General William B. Bate, Tennessee. 

Second assistant judge advocate general. Brigadier General B. F. Jonas, 
New Orleans, La. 

Commissary general. Major General Joseph Wheeler, Alabama. 

Surgeon general, Joseph Jones, M. D., Louisiana. 

Second assistant surgeon general, Brigadier General Christopher Hamilton 
Tebault, M. D., New Orleans. 

Third assistant surgeon general. Brigadier General Hunter Holmes McGuire, 
M. D., Richmond, Va. 

Chaplain, the Rev. Thomas R. Markham, New Orleans. 





IvIKUTENANT GkNKHAI. JOSEPH WhEELER. 



^lOQRAPtiieAL^HGTGfieS. 




GENERAL J. B. GORDON. 

COMMANDING UNITED CONFEDERATE VETERANS. 

OHN B. GORDON is perhaps the best type 
of the Confederate soldier of aU men now liv- 
ing, in whom the most dazzling quality was 
personal courage. The South had no braver 
son than he. He once told me that when he 
went into the war and was called upon to face 
an enemy he never thought of danger. He 
felt that as a soldier he had a certain duty to 
perform, and that whether he came out of the 
battle alive, or was left dead upon the field, 
"was none of his business: the Lord would 
sec to that!" Perhaps he was confirmed in this indifference to danger 
by a number of narrow escapes, which may have led him (as it has led 
many others) to feel that he had a charmed life. For the old hero con- 
fessed to me that after he had been struck a few times, and on one occa- 
sion carried off the field for dead, he "began to reflect" that he was not 
absolutely invulnerable, and perhaps it might be as well to take some pre- 
cautions at least against useless exposures. That sounds like the very 
words of truth and soberness, and we might expect the man who used 
this language of prudence to behave accordingly. No doubt he made 
good resolutions and kept them until the next battle. 

What the particular occasion was that brought him to this "realizing 
sense" of his danger, and to the good resolution to be more prudent after- 
wards, I heard from his wife. Calling at the governor's house with my 
friend, Mr. Samuel M. Inman, we found him just leaving for New York. 
He came in, however, to see us, and gave us the warmest welcome, talk- 
ing in his hearty way for a few minutes till he had to leave for the 
train, while we lingered to enjoy what was left behind of his delightful 
home circle, and heard some of his experiences from one not less brave 
than he, who followed him in all his campaigns, and who was never far 
away from the sound of battle. It was on the field of Antietam (or 
Sharpsburg, as the Southerners call it) that General Gordon was shot 
five times. First he felt a sharp pain in the calf of his right leg, as if a 

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wasp had stung him; it was a minie ball that had gone through. He 
would have felt it more but he had no time to think about it, for all 
around him men were falling like sheaves of grain. At such a moment all 
eyes are turned upon the commander, and for him to quit the field or 
show any sign of weakness might demoralize a vital portion of the 
army. So he held himself erect, though he felt the blood trickling from 
his w^ound, which soon ran faster as a second shot pierced him again, 
this time a little higher on the same leg. An hour later a third ball 
crashed through his left arm. Blood was streaming from three un- 
staunched wounds, while a fourth ball tore through his shoulder. He 
still refused to leave the field. "Tell my men," he said, "to fire on, and fire 
fast. I shall not leave them." Without a bandage on a single wound, 
weak and dizzy from loss of blood, he reeled along his lines, cheering 
his men, when he was struck down by a fifth ball through his face (the 
scar of which remains to this day), and the soldiers raised up and carried 
to the rear what they supposed to be the dead body of their late com- 
mander. 

Gentle reader, did you ever think you were dead? Did you ever 
come so near the border land that you seemed to have floated away from 
all earthly scenes, and to be in another sphere, where spirits were gliding 
to and fro, and you heard voices not of this world? So it was with the 
wounded soldier as he was borne from the field of battles. He was in a 
half-conscious state, in which it was, as it were, at once dead and not 
dead — dimly sensible of what was going on around him, and yet verging 
away into the realm of the invisible. The terrible scenes in which he 
had borne a part grew dim. The thunder of battle, the rush of horsemen, 
the tramp of infantry, the lumbering of artillery, all grew fainter and 
fainter on his ear, till he sank into that oblivion which men call death. 

Then came a few hours of unconsciousness, broken only by a faint 
sensation of being carried across a river (the army was retreating across 
the Potomac), and then he sank again, and still was carried on and on, 
till they laid him down, far away in Winchester, Va., where at last, amid 
the shadowy forms around him and the whispering voices, there came a 
voice that he knew, and as he opened his eyes there was bending over 
him one whose coming was like that of the angel of the resurrection. 

For weeks she watched by him, thinking that every day would be 
the last, yet watching still, even though it were only to perform the last 
offices of affection, rather than any hope of recovery. But at length the 
miracle was wrought. With all his wounds he had a great natural vitality, 
which kept his heart beating, till, with such nursing and such care, he 
began slowly to revive, and sometimes as she sat by him, would open his 
eyes and smile and utter some playful remark, which showed that the 
vital spark was not extinct. And so he finally rose up to be once more 



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a man and a soldier. As the war went on he grew in the confidence 
of his great chief till he became one of his most trusted lieutenants, and 
was almost always at his side, and so remained to the end. Indeed, on 
him it fell, when the last hour came, and "all was lost but honor," to tell 
his beloved commander that it only remained for him to submit to the 
last stern fate of a soldier — and surrender! 

These military associations have given General Gordon an un- 
bounded popularity among his companions in arms, the soldiers who 
served under him, and with the people of Georgia, who have conferred 
upon him the highest honors the}^ had to bestow. It is pleasant to see 
honors thus come unsought; and a still further pleasure it is to think that 
she who followed her husband in camp and field is still at his side to 
share whatever honors may come to him in this golden autumn of his 
life. ' H. M. F. 





Genkrai. George Moorman, 



ADJUTANT GENERAI. AND 



CHIEF OF STAFF, U. C. V 




MAJOR GENERAL GEORGE MOORMAN. 

ADJUTANT GENERAL AND CHIEF OF STAFF. F. C. V. 

HE following sketch of the most important staff 
officer in the United Confederate Veterans' Asso- 
ciation, is taken from one of the New Orleans 
papers of date July 5, 1891, where General Moor- 
man resides: 

General George Moorman, recently appointed 
adjutant general and chief of staff of the 
United Confederate Veterans by General John 
B. Gordon, commanding general, with his head- 
quarters in New Orleans, is one of the best known 
citizens of Louisiana, having been long identified 
with the business interests of this city in many 
capacities, which has caused him to be well and 
favorably known in every parish and in nearly 
every home in the state. 
His services given gratis to the state and people as president of the 
State Immigration Association of Louisiana, which was so conspicuously 
successful under the management of himself and his associates, has given 
him a strong hold upon the esteem and confidence of the citizens of 
Louisiana. 

General Moorman has long been well known here and in Mississippi, 
where he has at different times resided, and where he is connect ed with 
some of the best families; but he has recently come into prominence 
through his active and energetic measures in favor of attracting and se- 
curing immigration to this state. In this important service he has 
proven himself able, zealous and full of resource, and probably no private 
citizen of Louisiana has accomplished as much in that direction. To the 
post of United States marshal he will bring the same zeal and activity 
and intelligent comprehension of his duties, and on this his friends and 
promoters can safely count. He and they are to be congratulated. 

Previous to that he held high position on the Jackson railroad, now 
the Illinois Central, holding a position similar to general agent at this 
place; had been partner in the firm of Payne, Kennedy & Co., and J. U. & 
H. M. Payne & Co., and was with the "cotton king," the late Colonel 
Ed. Richardson, and the great cotton firm of Richardson & May, and 
was the promoter and connected with many enterprises for the good of 

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Louisiana. He was appointed United States marshal by President Cleve- 
land, and filled the office with great satisfaction to the public and credit 
to himself. His family came from Lynchburg, Va., and moved to Ken- 
tucky, where he was born ,at Owensboro, Ji-^ne i, 1841, and at which place 
he studied law, moved West, and after engaging in the Kansas war, 
and a trip out on the plains on foot, returned and settled in Kansas 
City and obtained his license to practice law in Independence, Mo., at 
nineteen years of age. He raised a local company, of which he was 
made captain, in Kansas City, for home service on the border between 
Missouri and Kansas. He assisted to capture Liberty Arsenal, in Clay 
county, and bring the arms south of the Missouri river. 

He disbanded the home company, and on the approach of the Fed- 
eral forces commanded by Captain Stanley (afterwards General Stanley), 
joined an infantry company as private and was at the engagement at Dry 
Creek, near Lidependence, where the first gun was fired west of the Mis- 
sissippi river. He was made captain and aide-de-camp on the staflf of 
General Roger Hanson Weightman, and w^as, at times during the war, 
on the stafT of Generals M. Jeff Thompson, Gid. J. Pillow, Governor 
Thomas C. Reynolds, of Missouri, John P. McCown, Milton A. Haynes, 
Lloyd Tilgham, Bushrod R. Johnson, Mansfield Lovell, William H. Jack- 
son, Wirt Adams, N. B. P'orrest and Stephen D. Lee. 

He served with distinction in all arms of the service — infantry, artil- 
lery and cavalry; and was successively aide-de-camp and assistant adju- 
tant general of brigade, division, corps and department, thus eminently 
fitting him for the important position he now holds of adjutant general 
of all the Lmited Confederate Veterans and chief of General Gordon's 
staiT. 

He was a prisoner of war three times, and when captured at Fort 
Donelson was taken to Camp Morton, at Indianapolis, Ind., Camp 
Chase, at Columbus, Ohio, and was confined in prison on Johnson's 
Island nearly one year. 

At Fort Donelson he carried to Colonel (afterwards general) Forrest 
the first order he ever received to move forward into regular battle. 

He was the hero of some of the most thrilling and romantic episodes 
of the war, notably at Fort Donelson, CofTeeville and near Sharon, Miss., 
and his name is specially and repeatedly mentioned for gallantry in battle 
in the official records of the rebellion, and the many orders there signed 
by him show the conspicuous and important part he acted in the great 
civil war at Belmont, Fort Donelson, Corinth, Sherman's Meridian Cam- 
paign, Holly Springs, CofTeeville, Franklin, Spring Hill, Columbia, 
Canton, Yazoo City, Birdsong's Ferr}^, Mechanicsburg, Harrisburg, 
Thompson Station, Tenn., Livingston, Miss., Jackson, Miss., around 
Vicksburg, Coleman's Cross Roads, and in nearly all of General W. H. 



82 SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. 

Jackson's battles, engagements, skirmishes, campaigns and raids, nearly 
a hundred in all, being almost daily engaged from the 6th of February, 
1863, to March 20, 1864. He resigned from the staf¥ on account of injury 
to his eyesight from constant writing and was placed in command of 
Moorman's cavalr}^ battalion, with rank of lieutenant colonel, which was 
increased to a regiment and finally surrendered with General Dick 
Taylor's forces. 

Just at the close of 'the war he married Miss Helen Shackleford, 
daughter of Chief Justice Thomas Shackelford, of Canton ,Miss. 

He served as sherifif of Madison county, Miss., for nearly three 
years, during the difficult period of reconstruction, and managed the 
office with great ability and success, satisfying all parties. He was 
also engaged in planting and merchandising at the same time. He 
moved to New Orleans in 1869, where he has been ever since. 

He conceived the idea and organized Camp No. 9, Veteran Con- 
federate States Cavalry Association of New Orleans, Louisiana, of which 
he was president and commander, which position he has held for four 
years, and until he resigned it and declined re-election; he is also first 
vice president Louisiana Historical Society. 

He is progressive and is a great organizer and worker, and his 
appointment will give satisfaction to every veteran in Louisiana. While 
a zealous lover of all the memories of the war, and the strongest advo- 
cate of his side, yet he urges reconciliation and fraternal feeling between 
the blue and gray. 

The conception of and calling together the cavalry clans from every 
Southern state into the great cavalry reunions held in New Orleans on 
February 13, 1888, and on March 4, 1889, the organization of Camp 
No. 9, Veteran Confederate States Cavalry, and the idea of having vice 
presidents in each Southern state to form camps, corresponding to the 
major generals of divisions of the United Confederate Veterans, origi- 
nated entirely with him. Nothing like it had ever been attempted in the 
South by any one before, and it is confidently believed that the ease 
with which he gathered the cavalrymen together in New Orleans in 1888 
and 1889, induced the veterans to undertake the formation of and gave 
rise to the United Confederate Veterans. 

At any rate, it is a fact that he conceived the idea; and his ac- 
quaintance being so general (having served with the troops from every 
state, and in so many capacities, it being asserted that he personally 
knows more veterans than any other living man), that he originated the 
Cavalry Veterans in 1888 and 1889, which was the first general body 
of veterans organized in the South. 

As an organizer he stand without a peer, his efforts in organizing 
immigration matters in Louisiana and in calling the cavalrvmen of the 







May Vaughn Dupree. 

WACO, TEXAS. 



84 SPONSOR SOUVKNIR AI^BUM. 

South into reunion at New Orleans, pale away before the wonderful 
ability he has shown in working up the United Confederate A'eteran 
camps. 

The United Confederate Veteran Association was formed June 
lo, 1889, the first reunion was held at Chattanooga, Tenn.. July 3, 1890; 
the second at Jackson, Miss., June 2, 1891, and very little enthusiam was 
manifestetd, only thirty-three camps having been formed. General Gor- 
don appointed him adjutant general and chief of staf¥ in orders dated 
July 2, 1 89 1, and it was late in the fall or winter before he received all 
the books and papers, and commenced active work; and although over 
two years had elapsed since the date of organization and only thirty-three 
camps had been formed, by the time of the third reunion, at New Orleans, 
April 8, 1892, and in about six months' time, he had worked up one hun- 
dred and seventy-two camps, and at the fourth reunion, at Birmingham, 
Ala., held April 25, 1894, there were five hundred and twenty camps 
registered, and at the fifth reunion, at Houston, Texas, held May 22, 
1895, there were six hundred and sixty-six camps, and at this writing, 
seven hundred and eight, with papers and applications in for about one 
hundred more. 

General Moorman attributes his success to the power of General 
Gordon's name, who is justly regarded as the greatest living Confederate, 
and is held in the very highest veneration and esteem all over the South. 

In addition to the appeal he made to his personal friends all over 
the South to assist in building up the association, he performed a feat 
which at once placed the cause and its objects before every veteran in the 
South. 

The noble address made by General Gordon upon assuming com- 
mand September 3, 1889, and which is universally pronounced as one 
of the most perfect and beautiful pieces of English composition extant, 
had not been disseminated. He conceived the idea that this magic appeal 
would stir up the old veterans if they could only read it, and make his 
work a success, so he sent a copy to about two thousand newspapers, with 
an appeal that they would all publish it simultaneously on the 6th day 
of September, 1891 ; the patriotic editors did so; it was placed in the 
hands and in the homes of every veteran in the South, and from that 
moment the success of the United Confederate Veterans was an assured 
fact. 

General Moorman was twice voted thanks for his great work by the 
veterans at the New Orleans reunion, and at Houston received an ova- 
tion upon motion of Lieutenant General S. D. Lee, and seconded by 
General Gordon, the veterans rising and shouting, the like of which has 
been accorded to verv few men. 




First Capitol of the Confederacy 
montgomery, ala. 




Richmond after the Surrender. 



DIVISION OF THE NORTH. 

Major General John C. Underwood, commander, Chicag-o, 111.; Colonel 
Samuel Baker, chief of staff, Chicag-o, 111. 




MAJOR GENERAL JOHN C. UNDERWOOD. 

OHN COX UNDERWOOD is the son of the late 
; Judge Joseph Rogers Underwood, by his second 
wife, Elizabeth Threlkeld Cox. He was born in 
Georgetown, D. C. During his father's pubUc life 
he was taken to and received his early education in 
Bowling Green, Ky. He was sent to the high 
school at Jacksonville, 111., and afterward went to 
college at Troy, N, Y., where he graduated with 
distinction at the Rensselaer polytechnic institute at 
the beginning of the late war. He espoused the cause of the South and 
was made a first lieutenant of engineers, C. S. A., and afterward became a 
lieutenant colonel of cavalry. He was in Richmond and Virginia until 
the spring of 1863; then in Tennessee until captured, sick with typhoid 
fever. As soon as he could be moved he was taken to Kentucky by his 
father, and when able to walk was arrested and sent to prison. He was 
closely confined in the miilitary prisons at Louisville, two at Cincinnati, 
and at Fort Warren in Boston harbor for over a year, and was finally 
paroled by special order of President Lincoln, but remained a prisoner 
until the clase of the war. 

After hostilities ceased he practiced his profession as a civil engineer 
and architect and did much work. He was city engineer of Bowling 
Green, Ky. ; of the public works of Warren county, Ky., and state engi- 
neer for periods aggregating fifteen years. He was councilman and 
mayor of his city and lieutenant governor of his state (Kentucky) for 
terms aggregating eight years. He was a journalist several years and 
rendered effective service to the Democratic party. He is a prominent 
Odd Fellow, having been grand master of Kentucky, grand representa- 
tive to and officer of the sovereign grand lodge of the world for twenty 
consecutive years, culminating in grand sire and generalissimo of the 
order. He recruited, organized and equipped the Patriarchs Militant, the 
semi-military corps of the Odd Fellows, thirty thousand strong, and com- 

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88 SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. 

manded the body for nine years. In 1891 he was made commander of 
the Northern divisions of the United Confederate Veterans, and com- 
piled rosters of the Confederate prison dead buried in the Northern 
states, and raised funds and erected a monument over the six thousand 
Southern soldiers buried in Chicago. He is a pronounced Southerner 
and a typical Kentuckian, is a large, determined man, liberal in his views, 
possesing great energy; is courteous and soldierly in his bearing and 
refined through birth and by education. 



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DEPARTMENT EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI. 

Lfieutenant General S. D. Lee, commander, Starville, Miss.; Brig-adier 
General E. T. Sykes, adjutant g-eneral and chief of staff, Columbus, Miss. 




LIEUTENANT GENERAL STEPHEN D. LEE. 

lEUTENAXT GENERAL STEPHEN D. LEE, 
commanding the department east of the Mississippi, 
United Confederate Veterans, Starkville, Miss., was 
born in Charleston, S. C, September 22, 1833. His 
family was among the most distinguished in the state. 
During the Revolutionary war his great-grandfather, 
William Lee, was one of the forty principal citizens of Charleston con- 
fined on prison ship and sent to St. Augustine, Fla., after the city was 
occupied by the British. His grandfather, Judge Thomas Lee, was 
United States judge for South Carolina during Monroe's administration, 
presided during the nullification dilBculties, and was a strong Union man. 
The grandson, upon his graduation in 1854 from the United States mili- 
tary academy at West Point, was assigned to the Fourth artillery. United 
States army, where he was first lieutenant and regimental quartermaster 
until 1 86 1, when he resigned to cast his lot with the South in the civil 
war. Previous to the reduction of Fort Sumter he was appointed captain 
in the South Carolina army, and, on becoming aide-de-camp to General 
Beauregard, he, with Colonel Chestnut, carried the summons to Major 
Anderson, demanding the surrender of the fort, and later, when Anderson 
declined, they carried the order to open fire on the fort. After the fall 
of Fort Sumter Captain Lee was made quartermaster, commissar}' and 
engineer, disbursing officer for the Confederate army in Charleston, 
having been appointed captain in the regular army of the Confederate 
states. At his request he was relieved from these duties, which were dis- 
tasteful to him, and went to A'^irginia in command of the light battery of 
Hampton's South Carolina Legion. He was in several fights with Federal 
gunboats on the Potomac; was promoted major of artillery November, 
1861, lieutenant colonel and colonel of artillery; was with General John- 
ston in the Peninsula campaign and in the battles around Richmond. He 
took part in the battle of Seven Pines, Savage's Station and Malvern Hill ; 
commanded the Fourth Virginia cavalry for six weeks, as all the field 
officers were wounded; was complimented by General Robert E. Lee for 
activity and gallantry; and commanded a battallion of artillery in General 

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Lee's army in the campaign against General Pope. His services at the 
second Manassas, or Bull Run, were brilliant and attracted the attention 
of the entire army. At Antietam he did conspicuous service, for which 
he was made brigadier general, November 6, 1863, and ordered by Pres- 
ident Davis to Vicksburg, Miss., to take command of the garrison and 
batteries holding the Mississippi river at that point. Here he w^as signally 
successful in many engagements of importance, notably at the battle of 
Chickasaw Bayou, and subsequently in the battle of Baker's Creek, or 
Champion Hills, where he was greatly complimented for his gallantry. 
General Lee commanded a part of the entrenchments in Mcksburg near 
the railroad cut, and immediately after the fall of that city was exchanged. 




Rev. Dr. \V. S. Penick. 
chapi^ain general, department east of the 

MISSISSIPPI, U. C. v. 

promoted major general August 3, 1863, and placed in command of all 
the cavalry in Missisippi, Alabama, West Tennessee and East Louisiana. 
When Sherman marched from Vicksburg to Meridian, Miss., with an 
army of thirty thousand men. General Lee hung on his front, rear and 
flanks with a cavalry force of two thousand five hundred men. The 
infantry force was not large enough to fight a battle and little opposition 
could be made by the cavalry force. When General Polk was sent from 
Mississippi to reinforce the Confederate army at Dalton, Ga., General 
Lee was promoted lieutenant general June 2t^, 1864, and assigned to the 
command of the department of Mississippi, Alabama, East Louisiana 
and West Tennessee. After the battle of Harrisburg, or Tupelo, Miss., 



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COMMANDING DEPARTMENT EAST OF THE MISSISSTPPI, U. C. V. 



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General Lee was ordered to Atlanta, Ga., and assigned to the command 
of Hood's old corps of infantry, Hood having relieved General Johnston 
in command of the army of Tennessee. 

When the battle of Nashville was fought and Hood badly routed, 
Lee's corps held and repulsed the enemy at Overton Hill and in the dis- 
aster his corps was the only one organized for three days after the rout. 
He was wounded while with the rear guard late in the afternoon of the 
day after this battle, but did not relinquish command until his corps was 
relieved by an organized rear guard, composed of infantry and the cav- 
alry corps of Forrest south of Columbia. As soon as General Lee was 
suf^ciently recovered from his wound, he resumed command of his corps 
in North Carolina, and in time to surrender with the Confederate army 
commanded by General Joseph E. Johnston. 

By profession he is a planter, and is now president of the Mississippi 
Agricultural and Mechanical College. 



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Gexekai. W1L1.1AM L. Cabell. 

COMMANDING TRANS-MISSISSIPPI DIVISION, U. C. V. 



TRANS=niSSlSSIPPI DEPARTriENT. 

Ivieutenant General W. Iv. Cabell, commander, Dallas, Texas ; Brig-adier 
General A. T. Watts, adjutant g-eneral and chief of staif, Dallas, Texas. 




LIEUTENANT GENERAL WILLIAM L. CABELL. 

ILLIAM L. CABELL, commanding 
trans-Mississippi department, United 
Confederate Veterans, was born in Dan- 
ville, Va., on January i, 1827. 

He entered the United States mili- 
tary academy in June, 1846, and gradu- 
ated in 1850. He was assigned to the 
United States army as second lieutenant 
of the Seventh infantry, and soon rose to 
rank of captain. 
When the war was inevitable, Captain 
Cabell resigned from the United States army 
and offered his services to the Confederacy. 
He was at once commissioned as major by the 
Confederate government, and, under orders from 
President Davis, left on the 21st for Richmond, Va., to organize the quar- 
termaster, commissary and ordnance departments. He remained in Rich- 
mond attending to these duties until June i, 1861, when he was ordered 
to Manassas to report to General Beauregard, as chief quartermaster of 
the army of the Potomac. 

After the battles of July 18 and 21, at Blackburn's Ford and Bull 
Run, General Joseph E. Johnston assumed command, and Major Cabell 
served on his staff until January 15, 1862, Avhen he w^as relieved and or- 
dered to report to General Albert Sidney Johnston, commanding the 
army of the west, for services under General Van Dorn in the trans-Miss- 
issippi department. He went with General Van Dorn to his headquar- 
ters at Jacksonport, Ark. 

He was soon promoted to the rank of brigadier general and assigned 
to the command of all the troops on the White river, to hold the enemy 
in check, until after the battle of Elk Horn, which was fought on March 
6 and 7, 1862. After that battle the army was transferred to the east side 
of the Mississippi river; the removal of this army, which included Price's 
Missouri and McCulloch's Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas troops, and 
his own command, devolved on General Cabell, and was performed in a 
single week from points on White river, Arkansas. 

When General Bragg's army was ordered to Kentucky General 

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the battles of luka and Saltillo in September, and at Corinth on October 
2 and 3, 1862, and at the Hatchie bridge on the 4th. He was wounded 
leading the charge of his brigade on the breastworks at Corinth, and also 
at Hatchie bridge, w^hich disabled him from command. What was left of 
his command was temporarily assigned to the First Missouri brigade, 
under General Bowen. 

When sufificietly recovered for duty in the field, General Cabell was, 
in February, 1863, placed in command of all the forces in Northwest 
Arkansas, with instructions to augment his command by recruits from 
every part of that section of the state. He was very successful, and organ- 
ized one of the largest and finest cavalry brigades west of the Mississippi. 



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A. T. Watts. 

ADJ. GEN. AND CHIF_:F OF STAFF, TRANS- 
MISSISSIPPI DIV., U. C. v. 



J. C. Story. 

ASS'T ADJ. GEN. TRANS-MISSISSIPPI 
DEPARTMENT, U. C. V. 



He commanded this brigade at Backbone Mountain, Poison Springs, 
Bentonville, Fayetteville, Poteau River, Antoine, Prairie-de-Anne, 
Elkin's Ferry, Mark's Mill, Pilot Knob, Reeves' Station, Franklin, Jef- 
ferson City, Mo.; Gardner's Mills, Booneville, Lexington, Mo.; Marshall, 
Mo.; Big Blue, Independence, Westport, Marias des Cygnes and numer- 
ous other places in Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri. 

On the raid into Missouri he was captured on the open field near 
Mine creek, on October 24, 1864, and taken to Johnson's Island, in Lake 
Erie, and from there to Fort Warren, in Boston Harbor, where he was 
confined until August 28, 1865. 



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Imogenh Saunders, " Queen of BeIvTon. 

BEr^TON, TEXAS. 



TEXAS DIVISION. 

Major General L. S. Ross, commander, Colleg-e Station, Texas ; General 
H. B. Stoddard, adjutant general and chief of staff, Bryan, Texas. 



HAJOR GENERAL L. S. ROSS. 



AVVRENCE SULLIVAN ROSS was born in Bentons- 
port, la., September 27, 1838. In the following spring his 
father. Captain Shapley P. Ross, moved to Texas. His 
early boyhood was spent surrounded by hostile Coman- 
ches and inured to hardships and dangers. In 1858, while 
at home on a summer vacation from Florence ^^^esleyan 
University of Alabama, he joined the Van Dorn campaign 
with a company of one hundred and thirty-five friendly 
Indian scouts and won his spurs and sobriquet of "The 
Boy Captain" in a desperate battle with the Comanches, 
where ninety-five of them were slain and three hundred 
and fifty head of their horses were captured. In this fight 
General Ross recovered from these brutal savages a little 
white girl about eight years of age, whose parents were 
never known, but whom General Ross brought up and 
educated, naming her Lizzie Ross. A dangerous wound 
received in this engagement almost put an end to his 
career. He lay for five days under a post oak tree on the 
battle field before he could be removed to the nearest 
United States post, ninety miles distant. Before the dead were all buried 
or the smoke of battle had cleared away, all the officers of the famous 
Second cavalrv. United States army, engaged, most of whom afterward 
became prominent generals on both sides in the late war, drafted and 
signed a petition to the secretary of war urging young Ross' appointment 
as an officer of the regular army, and General Winfield Scott wrote him a 
complimentary autograph letter, tendering his support and influence. 
As Ross was not yet of age and desired to complete his college course, 
he did not avail himself of the honor, but on his recovery returned to his 
alma mater, where he graduated with distinction the following summer. 
Immediately on his return to Texas in 1859 ^^^ was placed in command of 
the frontier by the clear-sighted governor, Sam Houston, and, organizing 
at once a faithful band of followers of like mettle with himself, defeated 

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the Comanches with great slaughter, destroying their principal village- 
and stronghold, captured over four hundred horses and rescued Cynthia 
Ann Parker. In this memorable battle General Ross killed, in a hand-to- 
hand combat, the Chief Peta Nocona, having his horse shot down under 
him, but escaping without personal injury. The chief's shield, lance, 
buffalo horns, etc., were sent as trophies to Governor Houston, at Austin, 
where they were deposited in the state archives. The incidents of this 
struggle have been related with pride by old Texas settlers and listened 
to with thrilling interest by the young around many a Texas fireside, and 
form one of the most fascinating chapters in the history of the Lone Star 
state. 

Entering- the Confederate army as a private he rapidly rose to major, 
lieutenant colonel, colonel, and at the age of twenty-four was brigadier 
general. He participated in one hundred and thirty-live engagements 
of more or less importance, and had five horses shot under him, but was 
not wounded during the war. On different occasions he was commended 
to the secretary of war for gallant and meritorious conduct by Generals 
Joseph E. Johnston, Hardee, Forrest, S. D. Lee, Dabney H. Maury, W. 
H. Jackson and Van Dorn. 

After the war, which left him penniless, he went to farming. In 1873 
he was sherifif of his county, and as such succeeded in putting down law- 
lessness; in 1875 a member of the constitutional convention, and in i88t 
he was eletted to the state senate, in which body he served as chairman of 
the finance committee. Often solicited to become a candidate for gov- 
ernor, he only consented in 1886, when he was nominated and elected, 
and re-elected in 1888 by a majority of one hundred and fifty-two thous- 
and. His record as governor is too well known to the people of the state 
to require comment. 

He retired from this high ofhce carrying with him the plaudits of 
friends and opponents; having given universal satisfaction by his con- 
servative and patriotic policy, and he has the honor of having afforded 
the state one of the most popular administrations that Texas has ever 
had. In January, 1890, he stepped from the governor's office to the presi- 
dent's chair of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, where 
he is having ample opportunity to display his line executive and admin- 
istrative ability. As a soldier unsurpassed in gallantry, as a statesman in 
the foremost rank, it is now his ambition, and his versatility of genius- 
no less qualifies him, to take a high place as an educator. 




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ADJUTANT GENERA!, AND CHIKF OF STAFF, TFXAS DIVISION, U. C. V 




M. W. Sims. 

Asst. Ouaytermaster and Commissary 
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R. H. Phelps. 
Judge Advocate General. 




S. P. Mendkz. 
Quartermaster General. 



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Dr. R. Rutherford. 
Surgeon General. 




Dr. R. C. BurIvESOn. 
Chaplain. 



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J. N. Cole. 
Aid-de-Camp and Treasurer 




G. A. QUINLAN. 

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Geo. B. 2;impi.eman. 
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Aid-de-Camp. 



Thos. D. Rock. 
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E. J. KeIvIvIE. 
Aid-de-Camp. 



R. M. Henderson. 
Aid-de-Camp. 



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Thos. J. GOREE. 
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T. U. L/UBBUCK. 

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E. R. Tarver. 

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R. N. Wkisiger. 
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J. R. Waties. 
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A. Iv. Steelk 
Aid-de-Camp. 



W. T.. Moody 
Aid-dc-Canip. 




J. D. Shaw. 
Aid-de-Camp. 



J. F. Parks. 
Aid-de-Carnp. 



OFFICERS TEXAS DIVISION, U. C. V. 



TENNESSEE DIVISION. 

General W. H. Jackson, commander, Nashville, Tenn.; Colonel J. 
man, adjutant g-eneral and chief of staif, Nashville, Tenn. 



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QENERAL W. H. JACKSON. 

AJOR GENERAL W. H. JACKSON, commanding 
the Tennessee division of the United Confederate Vet- 
erans, was born in Henry county, Tenn., in October, 
1835. He was commanding a company of cavahy in 
the regular army on the breaking out of the war. He 
resigned his position in the regular army and cast his 
fortunes* with the state of his birth. He was appointed a colonel of cav- 
alry by President Davis. He was afterwards appointed a brigadier gen- 





General W. H. Jackson, 
commanding tennessee division, 

U. C. V. 



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adjutant generai, and chief of 

STAFF, TENNESSEE DIV., U. C. V. 



eral and was commanding a division of cavalry at the close of the war, 
which he surrendered at Gainesville, Ala., on May 10, 1865. He is now a 
resident of Davidson county, Tenn., and resides on the Belle Meade farm, 
and is owner of the celebrated Belle Meade farm and race stock. 



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SOUTH CAROLINA DIVISION, 

General S. S, Crittenden, commander, Greenville, S. C; Colonel James G. 
Hawthorne, adjutant general and chief of staff, Greenville, S. C. 



GENERAL S. S. CRITTENDEN. 




AJOR GENERAL STANLEY S. CRITTENDEN 
commanding the division of South CaroHna, United 
Confederate Veterans, is a native of his state, and is 
sixty-three years old. His father, Dr. John Critten- 
den, was one of the early settlers of Greenville. 
His grandfather, Nathaniel Crittenden, of Connecti- 
cut, was a lieutenant, and one of six brothers in the 
Continental army. The mother of General Crittenden 
was Miss Stanley, a member of that well known family in 
the old North state. 

He volunteered at the first call for troops and was 
elected first lieutenant of a company that became part of 
the Fourth South Carolina regiment under Colonel J. B. 
E. Sloan, and participated prominently in the first battle 
of Manassas. This regiment and Wheat's battalion, 
forming Evans' brigade, on the extreme left, commenced the great battle 
and held the hosts of the enemy in check for two hours before being re- 
inforced. The regiment sufifered severely in killed and wounded. The 
day after the battle Lieutenant Crittenden received the appointment of 
adjutant in the place of the gallant Samuel D. Wilkes, of Anderson, 
who was killed. In the battle of Seven Pines, in May, 1862, when many 
of this gallant regiment were killed. Adjutant Crittenden was wounded by 

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a minie ball in the left breast while in front of his command. During his 
absence because of this Avound, Governor Pickens appointed him Heu- 
lenant colonel of the Fourth regiment of Reserves then forming for the 
defense of the Carolina coast. At the expiration of this service on the 




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commanding south carolina 
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Adjutant General and chief of staff, 
south carolina division, u. c. v. 



coast he volunteered as a private in General Gary's mounted regiment, 
Hampton's famous legion, for service around Richmond. He also served 
on the staff of General Gary. After the war, General Crittenden returned 
to planting, but for ten years served in his state legislature as representa- 
tive and as senator. 




NORTH CAROLINA DIVISION. 

Major General E. D. Hall, commander, Wilming-ton, N. C. 
Davis, adjutant g-eneral and chief of staif, Wilming-ton, N. C. 



Colonel Janius 



GENERAL E. D. HALL. 

ENERAL E. D. HALL, of Wilmington, 
department commander of North Caro- 
lina, is very much the type of Old Hick- 
ory. He raised the first volunteer com- 
pany in that section, if not in the state, 
and arrived at i\Ianassas just at the close 
of that memorable victory July 21, 1861. 
Soon after this he was appointed major 
of the Seventh North Carolina regiment, 
and so acquitted himself in the battle of New 
Berne that he was elected colonel of the 
Forty-sixth North Carolina, although a per- 
sonal stranger, even to its officers. His regiment was put in Walker's 
brigade, afterward famous as Cook's brigade, and it is said thev were in 





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every battle in Lee's army. General Cook was wounded several times, 
so that Colonel Hall, being senior colonel, had to take the command. 
This he did at Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Mary's Heights and Bristol 
Station. He declined the appointment of brigadier general, although 
A. P. Hill insisted upon it, in loyalty to his friend's (General Cook) ap- 
proaching recovery. In December, 1864, he resigned active service on 
account of disability. After his health improved he was elected to the 
senate. He took strong ground, when necessary, in behalf of his people 
in the period of reconstruction. 




LOUISIANA DIVISION. 

Major General B. F. Eshleman, commander, New Orleans, I^a.; Colonel 
G. A. Williams, adjutant general and chief of staff. New Orleans, Iva. 




GENERAL B. F. ESHLEMAN. 

HE present commander of the Louisiana division, 
United Confederate Veterans, Major General 
B. F. Eshelman, is a native of Pennsylvania. He 
left his home at the age of twenty, going to New 
Orleans, where he commenced his mercantile 
career in the hardware estabhshment of Stark, 
Day & Stauffer, predecessors of the well-known 
firm of Stauffer, Eshelman & Co. At the breaking out of the war he en- 
listed in the Washington artillery, and before leaving New Orleans for 
Virginia was elected the fourth captain of that battalion, which afterward 
became so famous, not in the South alone, but throughout the United 
States and Europe. Captain Eshelman commanded that portion of the 
battalion that did such noble service at Bull Run, July i8, 1861 — the first 
artillery engagement of the war — bringing the Washington artillery 
prominently before the army of Northern Virginia and himself to favor- 
able notice. In this battle he was seriously wounded and thereby inca- 
pacitated for several months. After returning to his command he was 
placed in command of the battalion, vice Major Walton, who was pro- 
moted and assigned to duty as chief of artillery. General Eshelman re- 
mained in command of the Washington artillery until the surrender of 
General Lee, having been promoted major and colonel of artillery. He 
was with his command in the battles of Seven Pines, Second Manassas, 
Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Williamsport, 
Drury's Bluff, Petersburg, and many others of lesser importance. 

After the war General Eshelman, returning to mercantile life, soon 
became a partner in the house he had served so faithfully as a clerk. 

He has served as president of the New Orleans Board of Trade, Mer- 
chants' and Manufacturers' Association, New Orleans Paint and Oil 
Association, and has been actively associated with many social and char- 
itable institutions. 



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General Thos. A. Brander. 

COMMANDING VIRGINIA DIVISION, U. C. V. 




VIRGINIA DIVISION. 

Major General Thos. A. Brander, commander, Richmond, Va.: Colonel 
Joseph V, Bidg-ood, adjutant g-eneral and chief of staff, Richmond, Va. 




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X-CONFEDERATE MAJOR THOMAS A. BRAN- 
DER, past commander of R. E. Lee camp No. i, United 
Confederate Veterans; past commander of Grand Camp 
of State of Virginia; major general and commanding Vir- 
ginia division, United Confederate Veterans, head- 
East Main street, Richmond, Va., was born in 
Richmond, Va., where he h^s resided all his life, 
fifty-five years old, and was engaged in mercan- 
the secession of Virginia, when he became a pri- 
vate in company F, First Virginia regiment. In April, 1861, was elected 
second lieutenant of company A, Twentieth regiment, Virginia volun- 
teers, and as such participated in the battle of Rich Mountain, W. Va. 
On his return he was promoted to a captaincy in the provisional army 
of Virginia. In the latter part of 1861 he assisted in raising and equipping 
the "Letcher battery" of six pieces of light artillery, of which he was made 
junior first lieutenant, in which capacity he served until the battle of 
Chancellorsville, May, 1862, when he was prom.oted to the captaincy of 
of his battery. He continued to serve as captain until January, 1865, 
when he was promoted major of artillery and assigned to Colonel 
Poague's battalion, where he served until the surrender at Appomattox. 
He was wounded at Fredericksburg, December, 1862, and was an active 
participant in nearly all of the batties of the army of Northern Virginia. 




MISSISSIPPI DIVISION. 

Major General Robert Lowry, commander ; Colonel George M. Govan, 
adjutant g-eneral and chief of staff, Columbus, Miss. 



MAJOR GENERAL ROBERT LOWRY. 

AJOR GENERAL ROBERT LOWRY, 
commanding the Mississippi division of 
United Confederate Veterans, was born in 
South Carolina, but when a small child his 
father moved to Perry (now Decatur) county, 
' Tenn.; thence to Mississippi, where the sub- 
ject of this sketch has since resided. General 
Lowry entered the Confederate army at the 
outbreak of hostilities in 1861, as a private 
in company B, Sixth Mississippi regiment. 
Upon the organization of that regiment he 
was elected to the position of major. After the 
battle of Shiloh, where he was w^ounded, he was pro- 
moted to the colonelcy of his regiment. Colonel Thornton, on account of 
wounds, having retired. In 1864 General Lowry was made brigadier 
general, which position he continued to hold until the termination of the 
war. He participated in the battles of Port Hudson, Baker's Creek, 
Corinth, Shiloh, Nashville, Franklin and most of the other important 
engagements of the army of Tennessee. 

Since the cessation of hostilities he has practiced his profession, the 
law. 




KENTUCKY DIVISION. 

Major General John Boyd, commander, Lexing-ton, Ky.; Colonel Joseph M. 
Jones, adjutant g-eneral and chief of staff, Paris, Ky. 



riAJOR GENERAL JOHN BOYD. 

AJOR GENERAL JOHN BOYD, commanding Ken- 
tucky division, L^nited Confederate Veterans, Lexing- 
ton, Ky., was born in Richmond, Ky., January 7, 1841. 
He is and since the war has been engaged in the sad- 
dlery business, and is a member of the firm of Thompson, 
& Boyd. He entered the army of the Confederate states 
at Lexington, Ky., in the summer of 1862, and joined the Buckner guards 
of Buckner's division, and later Cleburne's division, and served continu- 
ously with this division to the close of the war. He was in the battles of 
Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Ringgold Gap, the 
campaign from Chattanooga to Atlanta, Jonesboro, Dalton, Franklin 
and Nashville. He surrendered at Greensboro, N. C, May i, 1865. 








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Major General Fred S. Ferg-uson, commander, Birming-ham, Ala.; Colonel 
Harvey Ei, Jones, adjutant general and chief of staff, Montgomery, Ala. 



GENERAL FREDERICK S. FERGUSON. 

ENERAL FREDERICK S. FERGUSON, 
is a native of Huntsville, Ala., was graduated 
at the Wesleyan University, Florence, Ala., 
in July, 1859, ^^^^ until the war taught school 
and studied law. In January, 1861, he was with 
the expedition commanded by Colonel Lomax, 
which captured the navy yard and ports at Pen- 
sacola, Fla., and soon afterward was appointed 
second lieutenant of artillery in the regular regi- 
ment raised by Alabama and transferred to the Con- 
federacy. Flaving passed the examination for a com- 
mission as an ordnance officer, he served in artillery and was staff officer 
to Generals Gardner, Higgins and Page. During the siege of Fort Mor- 
gan he commanded one of its batteries, with the rank of captain, and was 
captured with its garrison in August, 1864, from which time until June, 
1865, he was a prisoner at Fort Lafayette, N. Y., and Fort Warren, Mass. 





Generat^ Frederick S. Ferguson, 
commanding ai^abama division, u. c. v. 

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FLORIDA DIVISION. 

Major General J. J. Dickison, commander, Ocala, Fla.; Colonel Fred L. 
Robertson, adjutant general and chief of staff, Brooksville, Fla. 




MAJOR GENERAL JOHN J. DICKISON. 

AJOR GENERAL DICKISON, commanding Flor- 
ida division, United Confederate Veterans, was born 
in :\Ionroe Co., Va., :\Iarch 27, 1824, in the good old 
times when the people of that grand mountain coun- 
try were in blissful ignorance of the wonderful speed 
of the "iron horse," and when called away from their 
peaceful homes on business or pleasure, were con- 
tent with the quiet comfort of the old-fashioned fam- 
ily coach or the pubHc stage coach. His father was a planter, so his boy- 
]iood life was a rural one. He was remarkable for his love of the military, 
delighted in reading the brilliant exploits of the great military leaders 
of history. It was the cherished hope of his father that his son — who was 
named for his old friend, General Jackson — should be educated at West 
Point, and therefore his early tastes were all so directed, but at the age of 
sixteen he had attained his full height of six feet, and as is the inevitable 
result of such rapid growth, his physical strength was impaired. He was 
therefore sent to South Carolina, where he found a genial climate and 
pleasant home with relatives. His studies were continued and the years 
passed quietly away without the hoped-for military training. 

He entered the Confederate service as a lieutenant of artillery. On 
the reorganization of the army he was promoted to the captaincy. In 
1863 he received a commission from Governor ]\Iilton as major general 
to command the state militia, but declined, as that position would have 
taken him out of the Confederate states' service. He was then commis- 
sioned by the governor and by Major General Sam Jones to order out 
the state troops whenever he saw a necessity and to discharge them when 
not needed. Later he received from the Confederate states government 
a commission as colonel of cavalry. Still later he was recommended for 
promotion as brigadier general, but before this was effected the war 
closed. 

His service was confined to the state, his superior officers opposing 
bis transfer to the \^irginia, or western army. It can be justly chronicled 
that his gallant command was the bulwark of Florida in the years of her 
eventful struggle to keep back the ruthless invaders from desolating 
every home and happy fireside. He did his whole duty and gave his 
heart's best blood for the cause so dear to every heart. 

The general gained the sobriquet of the ''War Eagle,"' and was often 
called the "]\Iarion of Florida." and the "Stuart of Cavalry." 

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GEORGIA DIVISION. 

Major General Clement A. Evans, commander, Atlanta, Ga.; Colonel 
Andrew J. West, adjutant general and chief of staff, Atlanta, Ga. 




GENERAL CLEMENT A. EVANS. 

ENERAL CLEMENT A. EVANS is a native of Geor- 
gia and has resided continuously in that state, except 
during the period of the Confederate war, when he 
served as a soldier in the army of Northern Virginia, 
commanded by General Lee. His business life began at 
the age of nineteen as an attorney at law, after graduat- 
ing from the celebrated law school of Judge Gould, and he practiced 
in the courts of Southwestern Georgia with success until he entered the 
Confederate army. Soon after attaining the age of twenty-one years he 
was elected judge of the county court of Stewart county, Ga., in which 
he served until four years later he was elected to the senate of Georgia, 
where he remained until the late war begun. During his early manhood 
he acquired a serviceable knowledge of military tactics by belonging 
to the military company of his town, and thus became somewhat prepared 
for the duties of his after Hfe. General Evans embraced the Southern 
cause with enthusiasm, and entering the service at the outset was pro- 
moted to major and then colonel Thirty-first Georgia regiment, in Law- 
ton's, afterward Gordon's brigade. He was commissioned brigadier 
general and assigned to the command of the same brigade with 
which he had served from the date of its organization. He was engaged 
in the various battles of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, receiving 
several wounds, and several months before the close of the great struggle 
was promoted to the command of Gordon's division. This noted division 
was composed of Terry's Virginia brigade, formed by consolidation 
of Jones' brigade and the famous Stonewall brigade; and of Hays-Staf- 
ford's brigade from Louisiana and Evans' brigade of Georgians. General 
Evans commanded this division to the final surrender at Appomattox 
C. H. Returning home, he entered the ministry when about thirty-two 
years of age, and for twenty-five years filled prominent offices in his 
church. He has, from time to time, engaged in public afifairs and con- 
ducted several important business enterprises with uniform success. 
Accepting the results of the war, he has urged the restoration of his state 
and the South to their well-deserved prosperity and absolute equality with 
all sections in the restored Union, and has taken advanced ground in 
inviting proper immigration and capital from any part of the country. 
General Evans is now major general of the Georgia division. United Con- 
federate Veterans, and a member of the Historical Committee, of which 
General S. D. Lee is chairman. 

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MISSOURI DIVISION. 



Major General J. O. Shelby, commander, Adrian, Mo. 
Newman, adjutant general and chief of staff, Huntsville, Mo. 



Colonel H. A. 




GENERAL J. O. SHELBY. 

O. SHELBY, commander of the United Confeder- 
ate Veterans in Missouri, is a Tennessean by birth 
and a grandson of Governor Shelby, one of the 
heroes of King's Mountain. He was reared in 
Lexington, Ky., and moved to Lafayette county, 
Mo., just prior to the opening of the war. He 
raised, armed and equipped a company and was 
a participant in the first battles of Missouri; 
Carthage, Oak Hill, Lexington and Pea Ridge, 
and went to Corinth after the battle of Shiloh. His 
activity and address attracted attention from his superior ofhcers and he 
was commissioned to raise a regiment in Missouri. Taking with him 
his old company, he went to the Missouri river and came back to Arkan- 
sas with a full regiment, killing and capturing enough to arm and equip 
his command. From this on his career was remarkable, and he was to 
Arkansas and Missouri what Stuart was to Virginia, Forrest to Ten- 
nessee and Morgan to Kentucky. He was badly wounded at Helena, 
commanded a division in the Price raid in Missouri, and saved that army 
on its retreat to Texas. At the surrender in Shreveport of the trans-Mis- 
sissippi department, he, with eight hundred of his men, withdrew and 
went to Mexico as exiles and sold his battery of six guns to Diaz. He 
took with him to Mexico Governor Isham G. Harris, of Tennessee; Gov- 
ernor Allen, of Louisiana, and other ofificers. 

He subsequently returned to Missouri and lived on a farm in Bates 
county until appointed by President Cleveland as LTnited States marshal 
for the western district of Missouri. He had refused other offices, 
although having them urged upon him often. 



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ARKANSAS DIVISION. 

Major General John G. Fletcher, commander, Little Rock, Ark. 




MAJOR GENERAL JOHN Q. FLETCHER. 

J^OHN G. PXETCHER, major general command- 
ing Arkansas division, United Confederate Vet- 
erans, was born in Saline county. Ark., on a farm, 
where he worked during crop-time and went to 
common country schools the remainder of the 
time. After arriving at his majority he went to 
Little Rock to live and joined a volunteer military 
company as a private. When the war between the 
states began he went with the company into the Confederate service, was 
at the capture of the Little Rock arsenal and the garrison of Fort Smith 
before the state seceded; during the summer of 1861 was in Southeast 
Missouri under General Hardee; from there went to Kentucky, above 
Bowling Green, and was in the retreat back to Corinth and was in most of 
the fights which the army of Tennessee was engaged in. Was promoted 
to first lieutenant after being out a few months and after the battle of 
Shiloh was promoted to the captaincy of the same company, which was 
company A, Sixth Arkansas infantry; was severely wounded at the battle 
of Stone River, or Murfreesboro, Tenn., on December 31, 1862; fell into 
Federal hands and remained in hospital for three months, and from there 
was sent to Fort McHenry, Baltimore, wdiere he was held as prisoner of 
war for some time. After he was exchanged he returned to the army of 
Tennessee, where he remained until the surrender by order of General 
Joseph E. Johnston. 

At the latter part of the war he served on a general court-martial 
for the army of Tennessee. After the war he returned to Little Rock, 
where he engaged in mercantile pursuits and is now engaged in banking. 




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NORTHEAST TEXAS DIVISION. 

General W. N. Bush, commander, McKinney, 
Texas: Colonel J. M. Pearson, adjutant general 
and chief of staff, McKinney, Texas. 



GENERAL W. N. BUSH. 

BUSH, major general commanding the 
Northeast Texas division of the United Con- 
federate Veterans, is a native of Kentucky. 
He was born in Clark county, ]\Iay 27, 1833. 
He enlisted as a private in company G, Alex- 
ander's regiment of cavalry, which served in 
the trans-Mississippi department. Early in 
1863 his regiment was removed to Louisiana 
and put in General Polignac's brigade, Moul- 
ton's division, where he served until the close of the war. 
■j.^^ This division did efficient service in meeting and re- 

pulsing General Banks on his expedition up Red river. The Alexander 
regiment captured the Ximm's battery of Banks' army. It was the first 
capture of cannon at Mansfield, and General Bush was the first man to 
reach the battery. In the second days' fight at Pleasant Hill he received 
a wound in the leg. In this engagement Banks was driven back to the 
Mississippi, but with heavy loss to the Confederates. He held the confi- 
dence of officers and comrades as a man and commander. At the close of 
the war he returned to his home in Collin county, Texas, and with renewed 
energy rebuilt his interests. 



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J. M. Pearson. 

ADJUTANT GENERAL AND CHIEF OF STAFF, 
NORTHEAST TEXAS DIVISION, U. C. V. 



SOUTHWEST DIVISION OF TEXAS. 

General William Hug-h Young", commander, San Antonio, Texas : Colonel 
D. M. Poor, adjutant g-enerarand chief of staff, San Antonio, Texas. 




x>^ . GENERAL WILLIAM HUQH YOUNQ. 

ENERAL WILLIA^I HUGH YOUNG, 
was born in Booneville, j\Io., on the ist of 
January, 1838. General Young was reared 
in Red River and Grayson counties. His 
early education was liberal and was obtained 
at Washington College, Tennessee; Mc- 
Kenzie College, Texas, and the University 
of Mrginia, from which institution he grad- 
uated in 1861. The civil war having 
begun, he remained and studied military 
tactics at the universitv^ which had been turned into 
a military institute. In September, 1861, he returned to Grayson county, 
Texas, and raised a company of men for the Confederate army. He was 
commissioned captain, and with his company was assigned for duty 
with the Ninth Texas infantry. He was in the serv^ice throughout the 
war, seeing duty principally with the army of Tennessee. He w^as 
an active participant in the great battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Perryville, 
Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Atlanta and Altoona. After the battle of 
Shiloh he was made colonel of his regiment, the Ninth Texas infantry. In 
1864 he was made brigadier general and as such acted the balance of the 
war. At the battle of Murfreesboro he was wounded in the left shoulder 
and had two horses killed under him. At Jackson, Aliss., he was wounded 
in the right thigh. At the battle of Chickamauga he was shot through 
the left breast. At Kenesaw ]\Iountain he was wounded in the neck and 
jaw. His next service was in the Atlanta campaign — from Cassville 
to Atlanta. In the battle around Atlanta General Ector, to whose brie- 
ade Colonel Young belonged, lost a leg, when Colonel Young was pro- 
moted and became its commander and was in all the subsequent engage- 
ments around and during the evacuation of Atlanta. In General Hood's 
subsequent march northward French's division, to which General 
Young's brigade belonged, was detached to storm Altoona Heights, 
which proved to be one of the most sanguinary struggles of the war. In it 

his horse was shot under him and the bones of his left ankle shot in twain 

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In an endeavor to reach the rear he was captured by the enemy's cavalr\' 
and for four months lay in Federal hospitals in Marietta, Atlanta, Chatta- 
nooga and Nashville. In February, 1865, he was removed to Johnson's 
Island and there imprisoned until July 25, 1865, having been a prisoner 





GeneraIv W. H. Young, 
commanding southwest division of texas, u. c. v. 

nearly ten months. General William H. Young was one of the youngest 
brigadiers of the Confederacy, but his war record was worthy of the 
bravest veteran of mature years. Since the war General Young has re- 
sided in San Antonio, Texa^, engaged in the law and land business. 




OKLAHOMA DIVISION. 

Major General Samuel T. I^eovy, commander, Norman, Oklahoma, Terri- 
tory ; Colonel J. O. Casler, adjutant g-eneral and chief of staff, Oklahoma City, 
Oklahoma Territory, 




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GENERAL SAHUEL T. LEOVY. 

^jSSr EN. SAM T. LEOVY was born near Lexington, 
Ky., in 1842; was raised on a farm and re- 
ceived a common school education. He en- 
listed July, 1862, in company I, of General 
John H. Morgan's Kentucky regiment. 

In September of that year he was ap- 
; pointed second lieutenant in company G, 
: Ninth Kentucky regiment, commanded by 
Colonel W. C. P. Breckenridge. In 1863 the 
Ninth Kentucky remained under orders with the 
army of Tennessee, while the rest of Morgan's cavalry 
were on the Ohio raid. During the fall of 1863 the 
First, Second and Ninth Kentucky were formed into the Second Ken- 
tucky brigade, attached to General Wheelers corps and served to the 
close of the war with the army of Tennessee. 

On Sherman's march to the sea this brigade was very active, and did 
much valiant service. 

December i, 1864, Captain Leovy was dangerously wounded while 
leading a charge, in a cavalry fight near Bethel Church, in Brock county, 
Ga. His was a remarkable recovery, as he was shot through the bowels 
and hip. There is only one other case on record where a man received 
a similar wound and survived. 

After the war he studied law and was admitted to the bar, but later 
followed his fancied occupation — stock raising and farming. In 1887 he 
was elected state senator for the Twenty-second Kentucky senatorial 
district. He located in Oklahoma City in April, 1890. 



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J. O. Casler. 

ADJUTANT GENERAI. AND CHIEF OF STAFF, OKLAHOMA 
DIVISION, U. C. V. 




General Samuel T. Leovy, 
commanding oklahoma division, u. c. v. 



WESTERN TEXAS DIVISION. 

Major General ^. M. Beane, commander, Cameron, Texas ; Colonel W. M. 
McGreg-g-or, adjutant g-eneral and chief of staff, Cameron, Texas. 



ELWOOD M. BEANE. 




ENERAL E. M. BEANE was born in Washing- 
ton county, Md., January 5, 1839. He came 
to Texas in 1857 and settled in Milam county. 
In 1859 he was on the frontiers of Texas in 
the company commanded by General L. S. 
Ross. He enlisted in the Confederate serv- 
ice in the first company that went out from 
Milam county, which was commanded by 
Captain J. C. Rogers and was a part of Hood's 
brigade. He was in all the battles participated 
in by Hood's brigade up to the battle of Gettysburg, 
wdiere he lost his right arm and was captured. He was 
a prisoner about ten months, for a while at Baltimore, a while at Fort 
McHenry and a while at Point Look Out, at which place he was ex- 
changed. After he was exchanged he was placed in the invalid's corps 
and ordered to report to General E. Kirby Smith, but organized a battery 
of the reserve corps commanded by General J. B. Robertson. 

After the war General Beane returned to Milam county. In 1886 he 
was a candidate for tax assessor of the county and was defeated by eight 
votes. By reason of some irregularity the Commissioner's Court threw 
out one small country box, which changed the result into a victory for 
General Beane by three votes, but he promptly declared to the court that 
he would not take an office upon technicahties and induced the court to 
reverse its action and seat his opponent. In 1888 he was elected county 
treasurer and twice afterward elected to the same office. 



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General E. M. Beane. 



•COMMANDING WESTERN TEXAS DIVISION, 



U. C. V 




W. M. McGreggor. 



ADJUTANT GENERAIv AND CHIEF OF STAFF, 
WESTERN TEXAS DIVISION, U. C. V. 




NORTHWESTERN TEXAS DIVISION. 

Major General Robert Cobb, commander, Wichita Falls, Texas ; Colonel 
William P. Skeene, adjutant g-eneral and chief of staff, Wichita Falls. Texas. 



SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS DIVISION. 

Major General W. G. Blain, commander, Fairfield, Texas ; ColoneljThomas 
J. Gibson, adjutant g-eneral and chief of staff, Mexia, Texas. 



MARYLAND DIVISION. 

Major General Georg-e H. Stewart, commander. Baltimore, Md. 



INDIAN TERRITORY DIVISION. 

Major General N. P. Guy, commander, McAlester, I. T.; Colonel R. B, 
Coleman, adjutant g-eneral and chief of staff, South McAlester, I. T. 



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OUR DIXIE 



LADY OF AUGUSTA^ QA., 1865. 



I heard long- since a simple strain; 
It broug-ht no thrill of joy or pain. 
Nor did I care to hear ag-ain 

Of Dixie. 

But time rolled on, and drum and fife 
Gave token of a coming- strife. 
And called our youth to soldier life 

In Dixie. 

And so our treasures, one bj' one, 
All by the battlefield were won; 
They heard at morn and setting- sun 

Our Dixie. 

Their blood flowed on the fresh g-reen hill, 
It ming-led with the mountain rill, 
And poured throug-h vales once calm and still 

In Dixie. 



The livingf rallied to their stand; 

Their war cry was their "Native Land;" 

But sadder from the lessening- band 

Came Dixie, 

Yet still it roused to deeds of fame. 
And made immortal many a name; 
It never caused a blush of shame, 

Our Dixie. 

We may not hear that simple strain 
Ever without a thrill of pain — 
Our dead come back to life again 

With Dixie, 

And if I were a generous foe, 

I'd honor him whose heart's best throe 

Leaped to that music soft and low, 

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WACO, TEXAS. 




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AUSTIN, TEXAS. 




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AUSTIN, TKXAS. 





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bryan, texas. 



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A PRAYER. 

(B)' a mother for her son, ag-ed 15, Memphis, July 26, 1864.) 







OD bless my darling, venturous boy, 

Where'er his feet may stray; 
God bless the sacred, righteous cause 

For which he went away; 
God bless the little arm 'round which 

My wristlet went not tight, 
Strengthen it. Lord, till it becomes 

A David's in the fight. 



So young, so bright, so fair, so brave, 

To Thee, oh, God, above! 
I leave the charge to shield and save 

The idol of my love. 
One more to battle for the right 

Of free men to be free, 
That hero's heart and child-like form, 

I dedicate to thee. 




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178 SPONSOR SOUVENIR AIvBUM. 

THE BONNIE BLUE FLAG. 

BY HAKRY MACARTHY. 



We are a band of brothers, and native to the soil, 

Fighting for our liberty, with treasure, blood and toil ; 

And when our rights were threatened, the cry rose near and far, 

Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag, that bears a single star! 

Chorus. — Hurrah! Hurrah! for Southern Rights, Hurrah! 

Hurrah! for the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a Single Star! 

As long as the Union was faithful to her trust, 
Like friends and like brethren kind were we and just; 
But now when Northern treachery attempts our rights to mar. 
We hoist on high the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a Single Star. 

— Chorus. 

First, gallant South Carolina nobly made the stand; 

Then came Alabama, who took her by the hand; 

Next, quickly Mississippi, Georgia and Florida, 

All raised on high the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a Single Star. 

— Chorus. 
Ye men of valor, gather round the banner of the right, 
Texas and fair Louisiana, join us in the fight; 
Davis, our loved President, and Stephens, statesman rare, 
Now rally round the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a Single Star. 

— Chorus. 

And here's to brave Virginia! the old Dominion state, 
With the young Confederacy at length has linked her fate; 
Impelled by her example, now other states prepare 
To hoist on high the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a Single Star. 

— Chorus. 

Then cheer, boys, raise the joyous shout. 
For Arkansas and North Carolina now have both gone out; 
And let another rousing cheer for Tennessee be given. 
The Single Star of the Bonnie Blue Flag has grown to be Eleven.. 

— Chorus. 

Then here's to our Confederacy, strong we are and brave. 
Like patriots of old, we'll fight our heritage to save; 
And rather than submit to shame, to die we would prefer. 
So cheer for the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a Single Star. 

Chorus. — Hurrah! Hurrah! for Southern Rights, Hurrah! 

Hurrah! for the Bonnie Blue Flag has gained the Eleventh 
Star! 




Miss Annie Gorman, of Montgomery, Ala., 



who sang- " The Bonnie Blue Flag- " to the delig-ht of thousands of Confederate 

Veterans at the Reunion. Miss Gorman is Sponsor for 

Camp Thomas, Montg-omer}-, Ala. 



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SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. 




5ATTLE FLAG THIRD GEORGIA DIVISION. 



THE CONQUERED BANNER. 



By the Rev. J. A. Ryan, Catholic Priest of Knoxville, Diocese of 
Nashville, Tenn. 



MUSIC BY A. E. BLACKMAR. 



Furl that banner, for 'tis weary; 
Round its staff 'tis drooping dreary; 

Furl it, fold it, it is best; 
For there 's not a man to wave it, 
And there 's not a sword to saA^e it, 
And there 's not one left to lave it 
In the blood which heroes gave it; 
And its foes now scorn and brave it, 

Furl it, hide it, let it rest. 



Take that banner down — 'tis tattered. 
Broken is its staff and shattered, 
And the valiant hosts are scattered 

Over whom it floated high. 
Oh ! 'tis hard for us to fold it, 
Hard to think there 's none to hold it. 
Hard that those who once unrolled it 

Now must furl it with a sigh. 





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The Misses Angier, of Huntsvii^i.e, Texas, 



who sang "The Conquered Banner" at the Winnie Davis Auditorium 
during- the Reunion. 



182 SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. 

Furl that banner, furl it sadly — 
Once ten thousands hailed it gladly, 
And ten thousands, wildly, madly, 

Swore it should forever wave. 
Swore that foeman's sword could never 
Hearts like their's entwined dissever, 
'Till that flag would float forever 

O'er their freedom or their grave. 

Furl it! for the hands that grasped it, 
And the hearts that fondly clasped it, 

Cold and dead are lying low; 
And the banner, it is trailing 
While around it sounds the wailing 

Of its people in their woe. 
For, though conquered, they adore it, 
Love the cold, dead hands that bore it. 
Weep for those who fell before it. 
Pardon those who trailed and tore it. 
And oh! wildly they deplore it, 

Now to furl and fold it so. 

Furl that banner! true 'tis gory. 

Yet, 'tis wreathed around with glory, 

And 'twill live in song and story, 

Though its folds are in the dust; 
For its fame on brightest pages. 
Penned by poets and by sages, 
Shall go sounding down the ages, 

Furl its folds though now we must. 

Furl that banner! softly, slowly, 
Treat it gently — it is holy — 

For it droops above the dead; 
Touch it not, unfold it never; 
Let it droop there, furled forever, 

For its people's hopes are dead. 



SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. 183 




'♦THE SOUTHERN CROSS."* 

BY ST. (iEO. TUCKEK, OF VIKGINIA. 

Published in 1860, a few months before the author's death. 



Oh! say can you see, through the gloom and the storms, 
More bright for the darkness, that pure constellation? 

Like the symbol of love and redemption its form, 
As it points to the haven of hope for the nation. 

How radiant each star, as the beacon afar. 

Giving promise of peace, or assurance in war! 

Chorus. — 'Tis the Cross of the South, which shall ever remain 
To light us to freedom and glory again! 

. How peaceful and blest was America's soil, 
'Till betrayed by the guile of the Puritan demon. 
Which lurks under virtue, and springs from its coil 

To fasten its fangs in the life-blood of freemen. 
Then boldly appeal to each heart that can feel, 
And crush the foul viper 'neath Liberty's heel ! 

— Chorus. 



* The Battle Flag- was desig-ned by Gen. Beaureerard, adopted hj- Gen. Joseph £. Johnston 
after the first battle of Manassas, and afterward adopted by the Confederate Congress. The 
reason for this chang-e was that in battle the Stars and Bars were frequently mistaken for the 
Stars and Stripes. It remained as the Battle Flag- until the close of the war. 



184 SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. 

'Tis the emblem of peace, 'tis the day-star of liope. 
Like the sacred Labarum that guided the Roman; 

From the shores of the Gulf to the Delaware's slope, 
'Tis the trust of the free and the terror of foeman. 

Fling its folds to the air, while we boldly declare 

The rights we demand or tlie deeds that we dare! 

— Chorus. 

And if peace should l)e hopeless and justice denied, 
And war's bloody vulture should flap its black pinions. 

Then gladly "To arms,'' while we hurl, in our pride, 
Defiance to tyrants and death to their minions! 

With our front to the field, swearing never to yield. 

Or return, like the Spartan, in death on our shield! 

Chorus. — And the Cross of the South shall triumphantly wave 
As the flag of the free or the pall of the brave. 




Al.FRE.5 JAP-E-T 



SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. 



185 



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Jas. R. Randai^l. 
Author of "My Maryland." 

MY MARYLAND. 

Written at Pointe Coupee, La., April 26, 1861. First published in the 
j\^ew Orleans Delta. 

The despot's heel is on thy shore, 

Maryland ! 
His torch is at thy temple door, 

Maryland! 
Avenge the patriotic gore 
That flecked the streets of Baltimore, 
And be the battle queen of yore, 

^Maryland! ]\ly ^Maryland! 

Hark to an exiled son's appeal, 

^Maryland! 
My ]\Iother-State, to thee I kneel, 

Maryland! 
For life or death, for woe and weal, 
Thy peerless chivalry reveal. 
And gird thy beauteous limbs with steel, 

Maryland! Mv ^larvland! 



Thou wilt not cower m the dust, 

^ Jar}- land! 
Thy beaming sword shall never rust, 

Maryland! 



186 SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. 

Remember Carroll's sacred trust, 
Remember Howard's warlike thrust, 
And all thy slumberers with the just, 

Maryland! My Maryland! 

Come! 'tis the red dawn of the day, 

Maryland! 
Come with thy panoplied array, 

Maryland! 
With Ringgold's spirit for the fray, 
With W^atson's blood at Monterey, 
With fearless Lowe, and dashing May, 

Maryland ! My Maryland ! 

Come! for thy shield is bright and strong, 

Maryland! 
Come! for thy dalliance does thee wrong, 

Maryland ! 
Come ! to thine own heroic throng, 
That stalks with Liberty along, 
And ring thy dauntless slogan-song, 

Maryland ! My Maryland ! 

Dear Mother! burst the tyrant's chain, 

Maryland! 
Virginia should not call in vain, 

Maryland! 
She meets her sisters on the plain — 
"Sic semper," 'tis the proud refrain 
That baffles minions back amain, 

Maryland! 
Arise, in majesty again, 

Maryland ! My Maryland ! 

I see the blush upon thy cheek, 

Maryland! 
For thou wast ever bravely meek, 

Maryland! 
But lo! there surges forth a shriek 
From hill to hill, from creek to creek — 
Potomac calls to Chesapeake, 

Maryland! My Maryland! 



SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. 187 

1 hoii wilt not yield the vandal toll, 

Maryland! 
Thou wilt not crook to his control, 

Marvdand! 
Better the fire upon thee roll, 
Better the shot, the blade, the bowl, 
Than crucifixion of the soul, 

Maryland! My ]\Iarvdand! 

I hear the distant thunder hum, 

Maryland ! 
The Old Line bugle, fife and drum, 

Maryland ! 
She is not dead, nor deaf, nor dumb — 
Huzzah ! she spurns the Northern scum ! 
She breathes — she burns! she'll come! she'll come! 

AIar}dand! My ]\Iaryland! 




On May 1, 1863, the Confederate Congress adopted 
this as the National Flag-. 




On March 4, 1865, the Confederate Cong-ress adopted 
this design as the National Flag- of the Confederate 
States, because the other, when limp, was too much like 
a flag- of truce. 



SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. 189 




THE STARS AND THE BARS.* 



O, the South is the queen of all nations. 

The home of the brave and the true — 
She makes no vain demonstration ; 

But shows what her brave sons can do; 
Her freedom and advancement they cherish — - 

"Our rights, our liberties," they cry, 
"To the rescue, w^e'll win the fight or perish. 

For the Southern boys never fear to die." 

Chorus. — Then hurrah for the "Stars and Bars," 
No stain on its folds ever be — 
Its glor}^ dishonor never mars, 

And 'twill yet grace the land of the free. 

Bring forward the tankard and fill it, 

Ye sons that are loyal and brave. 
Our blood- — O, how freely we'll spill it, 

We are fighting- for freedom or the grave; 
Our armies may be scattered and disbanded, 

Yet the wdld woods we still will infest — 
Yet shall fear the brave foe tho' single-handed, 

When the death rattle burst from his breast. 

— Chorus. 



* The Stars and Bars was the first flag- of the Confederate States, and was adopted by the 
Confederate Congress at Montgomery, Ala. 



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Though black clouds sometimes may darken, 
And shadow the bright sunny sky; 

To the rumbling of cannon we'll hearken, 

Which tells of the foe as they fly. 

Tho' thousands may fall stark and gory, 

Their requiem from gun and cannon mouth. 

They'll win fame, freedom and glory; 
And all for the loved "Sunny South." 

— Chorus. 




SPONSOR SOUVENIR AI^BUM. 191 




I WISH I WAS IN DIXIE'S LAND, 



BY DAN D. EMMETT. 



I wish I was in de land ob cotton, 
Old times dar am not forgotten, 

Look away, look away, look away, Dixie Land! 
In Dixie land whar I was born in, 
Early on one frosty mornin', 

Look away, look away, look away, Dixie Land ! 

Chorus. — Den I wish I was in Dixie — 

Hooray, hooray! 
In Dixie land I'll took my stan'l 
To lib an' die in Dixie 

Away, away, 
Away down south in Dixie. 

Away, away. 
Away down south in Dixie. 

Ole Missus marry "Will-de-Weaber," 
William was a gay deceber 

Look away, etc. 
But when he put his arm around 'er 
He smiled as fierce as a forty-pounder 

Look away, etc. — Chorus. 

His face was sharp as a butcher's cleaber, 
But dat did not seem to grieb 'er, 

Look away, etc. 
Ole Missus acted de foohsh part. 
An' died for a man dat broke her heart, 

Look away, etc. — Chorus. 



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SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. 



Now, here's a health to de next ole Missus, 
Ah! all de gals dat want to kiss us, 

Look away, etc. 
But if you want to drive 'way sorrow. 
Come an' hear dis song to-morrow. 

Look away, etc. — Chorus. 

Dar's buckwheat cakes and Injun batter. 
Makes you fat, or a little fatter, 

Look away, etc. 
Den hoe it down and scratch your gral)ble. 
To Dixie's Land I'm bound to trabble. 

Look awav. etc. — Chorus. 




Miss FA^'NIE Laing. of Dallas, Texas, 
who saner " Dixie *" at the Reunion. 




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LEE AT THE WILDERNESS. 



BY MKS. MOLLIE E. MOOKK DAVIS. 



'Twas a terrible moment! 

The 1)lood and the rout! 
His great bosom sliook 

With an awful doubt. 
Confusion in front. 

And a pause in the cries: 
And a darkness like night 

Passed over our skies: 

There were tears in the eyes 
Of General Lee. 

As the blue-clad lines 

Swept fearfully near. 
There was wavering yonder, 

And a break in the cheer 
Of our columns unsteady: 

But "We are here! We are ready 
With rifle and blade!" 
Cried the Texas Brigade 

To General Lee; 

He smiled — it meant death, 

That wonderful smile; 
It leaped like a flame 

Down each close set file; 
And we stormed to the front 

With a long, loud cry — 
We had long ago learned 

How to charge and to die: 

There was faith in the eye 
Of General Lee. 

But a sudden pause came, 

As we dashed to the foe. 
And our scathing columns 

Swayed to and fro; 
Cold grew our blood. 

Glowing like wine, 



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And a quick, sharp whisper 

Shot over our line, 
As our ranks opened wide — 
And there by our side 

Rode General Lee. 

How grandly he rode! 

With his eyes on fire, 
And his great bosom shook 

With an awful desire! 
But, "Back to the rear! 

'Till you ride to the rear 
We will not do battle 

With gun or with blade!" 

Cried the Texas Brigade 
To General Lee. 

And so he rode back; 

And our terrible yell 
Stormed up to the front; 

And the fierce, wild swell, 
And the roar and the rattle. 
Swept into the battle 

From General Lee. 

I felt my foot slip 

In the gathering fray — 
I looked, and my brother 
La}' dead in my way. 
I paused but one moment 

To draw him aside; 
Ah! the gash in his bosom 

Was bloody and wide! 

But he smiled, for he died 
For General Lee. 

Christ! 'twas maddening work; 

But the work was done, 
And a few came back 

When the hour was won. 
Let it glow in the peerless 

Records of the fearless — 
The charge that was made 
By the Texas Brigade 

For General Lee. 



196 SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. 



FOLD IT UP CAREFULLY. 



A Reply to "The Conquered Banner," bj^ Sir Henry Houghton, Bart., 

of Enf^land. 



Gallant nation, foiled by numbers, 
Say not that your hopes are fled; 

Keep that glorious flag which slumbers, 
One day to avenge your dead. 

Keep it, widowed, sonless mothers. 
Keep it, sisters, mourning brothers. 
Furl it with an iron will; 
Furl it now, but — keep it still, 
Think not that its work is done. 

Keep it ^till your children take it. 
Once again to hail and make it 
All their sires have bled and fought for, 
All their noble hearts have sought for, 

Bled and fought for all alone. 
All alone! aye, shame the story. 

Millions here deplore the stain. 
Shame, alas! for England's glory. 

Freedom called, and called in vain. 

Furl that banner, sadly, slowly. 
Treat it gently, for 'tis holy: 
'Till that day — yes, furl it sadly, 
Then once more unfurl it gladly — 
Conquered banner — keep it still! 















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198 SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. 

THE JACKET OF GRAY. 

B3' Mrs. C. A. BAI.T., Charleston, South Carolina. 



Fold it Up carefully, lay it aside; 
Tenderly touch it, look on it with pride; 
For dear must it be to our hearts evermore, 
The jacket of gray our loved soldier boy wore. 

Can we ever forget when he joined the brave band, 
Who rose in defense of our dear Southern land. 
And in his bright youth hiUTied on to the fray — 
Flow proudly he donned it — the jacket of gray? 

His fond mother blessed him and looked up above, 
Commending to Fleaven the child of her love; 
What anguish was hers, mortal tongue cannot say, 
When he passed from her sight in the jacket of gray. 

But her countrv^ had called, and she would not repine, 
Though costly the sacrifice placed on its shrine; 
Her heart's dearest hopes on its altar she lay. 
When she sent out her boy in the jacket of gray. 

Months passed and war's thunder rolled over the land. 
Unsheathed was the sword, and lighted the brand ; 
We heard in the distance the sounds of the fray, 
And prayed for our boy in the jacket of gray. 

Ah! vain, all, all vain were our prayers and our tears. 
The glad shout of victory rang in our ears ; 
But our treasured one on the red battlefield lay. 
While the life-blood oozed out on the jacket of gray. 

His young comrades found him, and tenderly bore, 
The cold, lifeless form to his home by the shore; 
Oh! dark were our hearts on that terrible day, 
When we saw our dead boy in the jacket of gray. 

Ah! spotted and tattered, and stained now with gore, 
Was the garment which once he so proudly wore; 
We bitterly wept as we took it away 
And replaced with death's white robe the jacket of gray. 





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We laid him to rest in his cold, narrow bed, 
And graved on the marble we placed o'er his head, 
As the proudest tribute our sad hearts could pay, 
"He never disgraced the jacket of gray." 

Then fold it up carefully, lay it aside. 
Tenderly touch it, look on it with pride; 
For dear must it be to our hearts evermore. 
The jacket of gray our loved soldier boy wore! 



THE VIRGINIANS OF THE VALLEY. 

B3- Frank O. Tichxor. 



The kindliest of the kindly band. 

Who, rarely hating ease. 
Yet rode with Spottswood round the land 

And Raleigh round the seas; 
Who climbed the blue Virginian hills 

Against embattled foes. 
And planted there, in valleys fair. 

The lily and the rose; 
Whose fragrance lives in many lands, 

Whose beauty stars the earth. 
And lights the hearths of happy homes 

With loveliness and worth. 

We thought they slept, the sons who kept 

The names of noble sires. 
And slumbered w^hile the darkness crept 

Around their vigil-fires. 
But, aye, the "Golden Horse-shoe" knights 

Their old Dominion keep, 
Wliose foes have found enchanted ground, 

But not a knight asleep! 






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202 SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. 

THE CONFEDERATE NOTE.* 

By Miss J. Turner, of North Carolina. 



Representing- nothing- on God's earth now. 

And naught in the water below it. 
As a pledg-e of a nation that 's dead and gone, 

Keep it, dear Captain, and show it. 
Show it to those that will lend an ear 

To the tale this paper can tell, 
Of liberty born, of the patriot's dream, 

Of a storm-cradled nation that fell. 

Too poor to possess the precious ore, 

And too much a stranger to borrow, 
We issue to-day our "promise to pay,'' 

And hope to redeem on the morrow. 
Days rolled by, and weeks became years, 

But our cofTers were empty still; 
Coin was so rare that the treasurer quakes, 

If a dollar should drop in the till. 

But the faith that was in us was strong indeed. 

And our poverty well we discerned. 
And these little checks represented the pay 

That our suffering veterans earned. 
We knew^ it had hardly a value in gold, 

Yet as gold the soldiers received it; 
It gazed in our eyes with a promise to pay, 

And each patriot soldier believed it. 

But our boys thought little of price or pay. 

Or of bills that were over-due; 
We knew if it bought our bread to-day, 

•Twas the best our country could do. 
Keep it! it tells all our history over. 

From the birth of the dream to its last; 
Modest, and born of the angel Hope, 

Like our hope of success it passed. 



* The above lines were found written upon the back of a five-hundred doUar Confederate 
note, subsequent to the surrender. 

The Editor would have been g^lad to publish an engrraving- of a Confederate note, but this 
is prohibited by the U. S. Government. 



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204 SPONSOR SOUVENIR AIvBUM. 

LITTLE QIFFEN, OF TENNESSEE, 

By Frank O. Tichnor. 



Out of the focal and foremost fire, 
Out of the hospital walls as dire; 
Smitten of grapeshot and gangrene 
(Eighteenth battle and he sixteen!), 
Specter, such as you seldom see, 
"Little Gififen," of Tennessee! 

"Take him, and welcome!" the surgeons said; 
"Little the doctor can help the dead." 
So we took him, and brought him where 
The balm was sweet in the summer air; 
And we laid him down on a wholesome bed — 
Letter Lazarus from heel to head! 

And we watched the war with bated breath, 
Skeleton boy against skeleton death. 
Months of torture, how many such? 
Weary weeks of the stick and crutch ; 
And still a glint of the steel-blue eye 
Told of a spirit that wouldn't die. 



And didn't, nay, more! in death's despite 
The crippled skeleton "learned to write." 
"Dear mother," at first, of course; and then 
"Dear captain," inquiring about the men. 
Captain's answer: "Of eighty and five, 
Giffen and 1 are left alive. 

Word of gloom from the war one day; 

Johnston pressed at the front, they say. 

Little Giffen was up and away; 

A tear, his first, as he bade good-bye, 

Dimmed the glint of his steel-blue eye. 

"I'll write, if spared." There was news of the fight, 

But none of Giffen. He did not write. 

I sometimes fancy that, were I king 

Of the princely Knights of the Golden Ring, 

With the song of the minstrel in mine ear, 

And the tender legend that trembles here, ' 

I'd give the best on his bended knee. 

The whitest soul of my chivalry. 

For "Little Giffen," of Tennessee. 




Mary A. Jone^. Fkancis B. Hokk. 

E1.1.EN D. HiNDivK. AdeIvAIde B. Snow 



(The four young- ladies selected to ride in the procession when Jef- 
ferson Davis' body was received at Raleigb, N. C.) 



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206 SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. 

STONEWALL JACKSON'S WAY. 

Found on the body of a serg-eant of the Old Stonewall Brigade, 
Winchester, Va. 



Come, stack arms, men ! pile on the rails, 

Stir up the camp-fire bright; 
No matter if the canteen fails, 

We'll make a roaring night; 
Here Shenandoah brawls along, 
To swell the Brigade's rousing song 

Of "Stonewall Jackson's way." 

We see him now! — the old slouched hat 

Cocked o'er his eye, askew — 
The shrewd, dry smile — the speech as pat — 

So calm, so blunt, so true. 
The "Blue Light Elder" knows o'er well- 
Says he, "That's Banks — he's fond of shell — 
Lord save his soul! — we'll give him" — well, 

That's "Stonewall Jackson's w^ay." 

Silence! ground arms! kneel all! caps of¥! 

Old Blue Light's going to pray; 
Strangle the fool that dares to scoff! 

Attention! 'tis his way! 

Appealing from his native sod, 

In forma pauperis to God — 
"Lay bare thine arm; stretch forth thy rod; 

Amen ! That's "Stonewall's way." 

He's in the saddle now! Fall in! 

Steady— the whole Brigade! 
Sill's at the ford cut off! He'll win 

His way out, ball and blade; 
What matter if our shoes are worn! 
What matter if our feet are torn! 
"Quick step — we're with him before dawai!" 

That's "Stonewall Jackson's way." 



SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. 



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The sun's bright lances rout the mists 

Of morning, and, by George, 

There's Longstreet strugghng in the Usts, 

Hemmed in an ugly gorge — 
Pope and his Yankees whipped l^efore — 
"Bayonet and grape!" hear StonewaU roar 
"Charge, Stuart! Pay off Ashby's score 

In StonewaU Jackson's way" 

Ah, maiden! wait and watch and yearn 

For news of Stonewall's band; 
Ah, widow! read with eyes that burn 

That ring upon thy hand; 

Ah, wife! sew on, pray on, hope on, 

Thy life shall not be all forlorn — 

The foe had better ne'er been born. 

Than get in "Stonewall's way." 




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:03 SPONSOR SOUVENIR AIvBUM. 

THE SWORD OF ROBERT LEE. 

By Father Ryan. 



Forth from its scabbard, pure and bright, 

Flashed the sword of Lee! 
Far in front of the deadly fight. 
High o'er the brave in the cause of Right, 
Its stainless sheen, like a beacon light. 
Led us to victor\\ 

Out of its scabbard, where, full long, 

It slumbered peacefully, 
Roused from its rest by the battle's song. 
Shielding the feeble, smiting the strong, 
Guarding the right, avenging the wrong. 

Gleamed the sword of Lee. 

Forth from its scabbard, high in air 

Beneath Virginia's sky — 
And they who saw it gleaming there, 
And knew who bore it, knelt to swear 
That where that sword led they would dare 

To follow — and to die. 

Out of its scabbard! Never hand 

Waved sword from stain as free. 
Nor purer sword led braver band, 
Nor braver bled for a brighter land, 
Nor brighter land had a cause so grand. 
Nor cause a chief like Lee! 

Forth from its scabbard! How we prayed 

That sword might victor be; 
And when our triumph was delayed, 
And many a heart grew sore afraid. 
We still hoped on while gleamed the blade 
Of noble Robert Lee. 

Forth from its scabbard all in vain 

Bright flashed the sword of Lee; 

'Tis shrouded now in its sheath again. 

It sleeps the sleep of our noble slain. 

Defeated, yet without a stain. 
Proudly and peacefully. 






SPONSOR SOUVENIR AIvBUM. 209 

ALL QUIET ALONG THE POTOMAC TO=NIQHT. 

By IvA.MAR Fontaine. 



''All quiet along the Potomac to-night!" 

Except here and there a stray picket 
Is shot, as he walks on his beat, to and fro. 

By a rifleman hid in the thicket. 

'Tis nothing! a private or two now and then 
Will not count in the news of a battle; 

Not an officer lost! only one of the men 
Moaning out, all alone, the death-rattle. 

"All quiet along the Potomac to-night!" 
Where soldiers lie peacefully dreaming; 

And their tents in the rays of the clear Autumn moon, 
And the light of their camp-fires are gleaming. 

A tremulous sigh, as a gentle night wind 
Through the forest leaves slowly is creeping; 

While the stars up above, with their glittering eyes. 
Keep guard o'er the army while sleeping. 

There's only the sound of the lone sentry's tread. 
As he tramps from rock to the fountain. 

And thinks of the two on the low trundle bed. 
Far away, in the cot on the mountain. 

His musket falls slack, his face, dark and grim, 

Grows gentle with memories tender. 
As he mutters a prayer for the children asleep. 

And their mother— ''may heaven defend her!" 

The moon seems to shine forth as brightly as then — 
That night, when the love, yet unspoken. 

Leaped up to his lips, and when low-murmured vows 
Were pledged to be ever unbroken. 

Then drawing his sleeve roughly over his eyes. 

He dashes off tears that are welling; 
And gathers his gun closer up to his breast. 

As if to keep down the heart's swelling. 



210 SPONSOR SOUVENIR AI^BUM. 

He passes the fountain, the blasted pine tree, 
And his footstep is lagging and weary; 

Yet onward he goes, through the broad belt of light, 
Towards the shades of the forest so dreary. 

Hark! was it the night-wind that rustled the leaves? 

Was it moonlight so wondrously flashing? 
It looked like a rifle: ''Ha, Mary, good-by!" 

And his life-blood is ebbing and splashing. 

"All quiet along the Potomac to-night!" 
No sound save the rush of the river; 

While soft falls the dew on the face of the dead, 
And the picket 's off duty forever. 




SPONSOR SOUVENIR AI^BUM. 211 

LEE TO THE REAR. 



Dawn of a pleasant morning in May 

Broke through the Wilderness, cool and gray, 

While, perched in the tallest tree tops, the birds 

Were carrolling Mendelssohn's "Songs Without Words.'' 

Far from the haunts of men remote. 
Where the brook brawled on with a liquid note, 
And Nature, all tranquil and lovely, wore 
The smile of Spring, as in Eden of yore. 

Little by little, as daylight increased 

And deepened the roseate flush on the East, 

Little by little did morning reveal 

Two long, glittering lines of steel. 

Where two hundred thousand bayonets gleam. 
Tipped by the light of the earliest beam. 
And the faces are sullen and grim to see 
In the hostile armies of Grant and Lee. 

All of a sudden, ere rose the sun, 
Pealed on the silence the opening gun ; 
A little white puff of smoke there came. 
And anon the valley was wreathed in flame. 

Down on the left of the rebel hues. 

Where a breastwork stands in a copse of pines, 

Before the rebels their ranks can form, 

The Yankees have carried the place by storm. 

Stars and stripes o'er the salient wave, 

Where many a hero has found a grave. 

And the gallant Confederates strive in vain 

The ground they have drenched with their blood, to regain. 

Yet louder the thunder of battle roars, 
Yet a deadher fire on their column pours; 
Slaughter infernal rode with Despair, 
Furies twain through the smoky air. 



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Not far off, in the saddle, there sat 
A gray-bearded man, with a black slouch hat; 
Not much moved by the fire was he — 
Calm and resolute Robert Lee. 

Quick and watchful, he kept his eye 

On two bold rebel brigades close by; 

Reserves, who were standing — and dying — at ease 

Where the tempest of wrath toppled over the tree^. 

For still, with their loud bull dog bay. 

The Yankee batteries blazed away, 

And with every murderous second that sped, 

A dozen brave fellows, alas! fell dead. 

The grand old beard rode to the space 
Where Death and his victims stood face to face, 
And silently waved his old slouch hat, 
A world of meaning there was in that. 

"Follow me! Steady, — we'll save the day;" 
This is what it seemed to say ; 
And, to the light of that glorious eye, 
The bold brigades thus made reply: 

"We'll go forward; but you must go back," 
And they moved not an inch in the perilous track 
"Go to the rear and we'll give them a rout" — 
Then the sound of the battle was lost in their shout 

Turning his bridle, Robert Lee 
Rode to the rear.— Like the waves of the sea, 
Bursting the dykes in their overflow, 
Madly his veterans dashed on the foe. 

And backward in terror that foe was driven. 
Its banners rent and its columns riven, 
Wherever the tide of battle rolled, 
Over the Wilderness, wood and wold. 

Sunset, out of crimson sky. 

Streamed o'er a field of ruddier dye, 

And the brook ran on with a purple stain. 

From the blood of ten thousand foemen slain. 



SPONSOR SOUVENIR AI^BUM. 213 

Seasons have passed since that day and vear, 
Again o'er the pebbles the brook runs clear, 
And the fields in a richer green are dressed, 
Where the dead of the terrible conflict rest. 

Hushed is the roll of the rebel drum, 

The sabres are sheathed and the cannon are dumb; 

And Fate, with a pitiless hand, has furled 

The flag that once challenged the gaze of the world ; 

But the fame of the Wilderness fight abides, 

And down into history grandly rides. 

Calm and unmoved as in battle he sat. 

The gray-bearded man with the black slouch hat. 

— Thompson. 




"^^MINISGEXGES. 



WORSLEY'S LINES TO GENERAL LEE. 

The lines to General Lee, which have been several times improperly 
attributed to Lord Derby, were really written by Prof. Philip Stanhope 
Worsle}^, of Oxford, and were first published by me in my ''Personal 
Reminiscences, Anecdotes, and Letters of R. E. Lee," copied from the 
original, which I have seen many times in General Lee's home in Lex- 
ington, Va. 

I send also two letters from General Lee to Prof. Worsley, which I 
found copied in his private letter book, when after his lamented death 
I had the privilege of examining and culling from the private papers of 
the great chieftain. The extracts are as follows: 

The following inscription and poem accompanied the presentation of a 
perfect copy of the "Translation of the Iliad of Homer into Spencerian Stanza," 
by Philip Stanhope Worsley, Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, a 
scholar and poet whose untimely death, noticed with deepest regret throughout 
the literary world in England, has cut short a career of the brightest promise: 

To General R. E. Lee, the most stainless of living commanders, and, except 
in fortune, the greatest, this volume is presented with the writer's earnest 
sympathy and respectful admiration. 

The grand old bard that never dies. 

Receive him in our English tongue! 
I send thee, but with v/eeping eyes, 

The story that he sung. 
Thy Troy is fallen, thy dear land 

Is marred beneath the spoiler's heel. 
I cannot trust my trembling hand 

To write the things I feel. 
Ah, realm of tombs! but let her bear 

This blazon to the last of times; 
No nation rose so white and fair, 

Or fell so pure of crimes. 
The widow's moan, the orphan's wail, 

Come round thee; yet in truth be strong! 
Eternal right, though all else fail, 

Can never be made wrong. 
An angel's heart, an angel's mouth, 

Not Homer's, could alone for me 
Hymn well the great Confederate South, 

Virginia first, and Lee. 

P. S. W. 
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Gexet^al Robert E. Lee in 1862. 



"He possessed everj' virtue of other g-reat commanders without their vices- 
He was a foe without a hate, a friend without treachery, a soldier without 
cruelty, and a victim without murmuring". He was a public officer without 
vices, a private citizen without wrong-, a neig^hbor without reproach, a Christian 
without hypocrisy, and a man without g-uile. He was C^sar without ambition, 
Frederick without tj-ranny, Napoleon without selfishness, and Washington 
without reward. He was obedient to authority as a servant, and royal in 
authority as a true king-. He was g-entle as woman in life, modest and pure as 
a virg-in in thoug-ht, watchful as a Roman Vestal in duty, submissive to law as 
Socrates, and g-rand in battle as Achilles." — Ben Hili.. 



216 SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. 

General Lee's Reply. 

Lexington, Va., February 10, 1866. 

Mr. P. S. Worsley — My Dear Sir : I have received the copy of your translation 
of the "Iliad," which you so kindly presented to me. Its perusal has been my 
evening's recreation, and I have never enjoyed the beauty and grandeur of the 
poem more than as recited by j^ou. The translation is as truthful as powerful, 
and faithfully reproduces the imagery and rhythm of the bold original. 

The undeserved compliment to myself in prose and verse, on the first 
loaves of the volume, I receive as your tribute to the merit of my countrymen 
who struggled for constitutional government. 

With great respect, your obedient servant, R E. LEE. 

Another Letter from General Lee. 

Lexington, Va., March 14, 1866. 

Mr. P. S. Worsley: My Dear Mr. Worsley — In a letter just received from 
my nephew, Mr. Childe, I regret to learn that, at his last accounts from you, 
you were greatly indisposed. So great is my interest in your welfare that I 
cannot refrain, even at the risk of intruding upon your sick room, from express- 
ing my sincere sympathy in your affliction. I trust, however, that ere this you 
have recovered and are again in perfect health. Like many of your tastes and 
pursuits, I fear you may confine yourself too closely to your reading; less mental 
labor and more of the fresh air of heaven might bring to you more comfort and 
to your friends more enjoyment, even in the way in which you now delight them. 
Should a visit to this distracted country promise you any recreation, I hope I 
need not assure you how happy I should be to see you at Lexington. I can give 
you a quiet room and careful nursing and a horse that would delight to carry 
you over our beautiful mountains. I hope my letter informing you of the 
pleasure I derived from the perusal of your translation of the "Iliad," in which 
I endeavored to express my thanks for the great compliment you paid me in its 
dedication, has informed you of my high appreciation of the work. 

Wishing you every happiness in this world, and praying that eternal peace 
may be your portion in that to come, I am, most truly, your friend and servant, 

R. E. LEE. 
The friendship between the quiet scholar and the great soldier forms 
a beautiful episode in their lives. The exquisite poem of Worsley is a 
touching tribute to the Confederacy and to Lee, and it would seem a pity 
that Lord Derby or any one else should rob the poet of his laurels. 




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THE CONFEDERATE WOMEN. 



What They Did^During the Times of the Terrible War. 




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I HE history of the war would not be complete with- 
out a tribute to the Confederate women. It would 
be injustice to them to say that they were sim- 
ply patriotic: for, while they were of all patri- 
ots the greatest, they gave the Southern cause 
the benefit of much more than their good wishes. 
Xo w^omen at any time in the history of the 
world ever surrendered as much for a cause as did 
the women of the South. There have been instances 
where hundreds have indeed made ever\^ sacrifice, but 
this is the only instance where a nation of women 
worked and fought for a nation. There was undoubt- 
edly not one woman in the entire South during the last 
year of the war of whom it could be said she lived in luxury. The wife 
of the president of the Confederacy sold her family silver for the cause. 

The invalid wife of the general of the Confederate army spent her 
small strength in knitting socks for the Confederate soldiers. Little girls 
occupied their hours in picking lint for Confederate soldiers' wounds. 
Saints — good, beautiful, patient, cheering, they proved angels on battle 
fields and in the hospitals. They stan^ed at home in order to send their 
scanty food to the army. Worn and broken by privation, they wrote 
letters beaming with hope and gladness to the camp and resounding 
with defiance to the foe. No country ever had such loving daughters, 
no cause such tireless champions. They were the last to be recon- 
structed. Some of them have never been reconstructed. Some of them 
never will be reconstructed. 



218 





Mrs. Sai,i,ie Chapman Gordon-IvAW, 

"mother of the confederacy." 

It would require an entire volume to tell of the unnumbered deeds of charity 

during- the war, of this most disting-uished 

Tennessee lady. 



HENRIETTA H. HORQAN, HOTHER OF HEROES. 



Born in Lexington, Ky., December 5, 1805; died there September 
7, 1891 ; wife of Calvin C. Morgan, who was born December 16, 1801, 
and died May i, 1854. 

Mrs. Henrietta Hunt Morgan was the mother of the following sons 
and daughters: 

John H. Morgan, major general division of cavair}% born June i, 
1825; and killed at Greenville, Tenn., September 4, 1864. 

Thomas H. Morgan, lieutenant Company I, Second Kentucky Cav- 
alry, born May 7, 1844; killed at Lebanon, Ky., July 5, 1863. 

Francis Key Morgan, private Company A, Second Kentucky Cav- 
alry, born August 23, 1845; <^^i^d October 6, 1873. 

Calvin C. Morgan, captain on staff of General Morgan, born June 
4, 1827; died July 19, 1882. 

Mrs. Kitty G. Forsythe, widow of Lieutenant General A. P. Hill, 
who was killed at Petersburg, April 2, 1865. 

Mrs. Henrietta FI. Duke, wife of BrigacUer General Basil W. Duke. 

Richard C. Morgan, colonel Fourteenth Kentucky Cavalry. 

Charlton H. Morgan, captain staff of General ]\Iorgan. 

Her life was embittered by many sorrows, but rewarded by the bless- 
ings which are given those who find happiness in good done to others. 
Unselfish, charitable, self-sacrificing, heroic in devotion to duty, untiring 
in the of^ces of affection, her name and memory are sanctified. She 
gave all her life to her family and friends. She gave her children to her 
country. She ministered unceasingly to the poor and helpless, and she 
loved the Lord her God with all her heart and all her soul and all her 
mind, and has "crossed over the river to rest under the shade of the trees.'' 



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FLORIDA WHITE. 

HIS distinguished woman was Miss Ellen Adair, one 
of the seven daughters of General Adair, who was 
governor of Kentucky. At the age of eighteen she 
married Joseph Alonroe White, who represented the 
Land of Flowers in the United States congress. She 
became eminently prominent in Washington society, 
and traveled with her husband throuh Europe in 
their private carriage. Mr. White was a leading Spanish land lawyer, and 
a single fee sometimes approximated $100,000. He was proud of his wife 
and lavish in expenditure for her pleasure and popularity. Bulwer read 
to her in manuscript his "Last Days of Pompeii." On their departure 
for return to America, Madame Murat asked Mrs. White what she could 
give her as a token of remembrance, and the reply came, ''Your hand." 
That famously beautiful hand was cast in bronze and was given by the 
recipient to the editor of the Veteran. 

Justice Story and other members of the L^nited States supreme court 
paid her these high tributes : 

Thou hast gone from us, lady, to shine 
Midst the throng of the gay and tlie fair; 

If thou'rt happy, we will not repine, 

But, say, canst thou think of us there? 

^ Circled round by the glittering crowd, 

Who flatter, gaze, sigh, and adore, 

I would ask, if I were not too proud. 

Hast thy heart room for one image more? 

Forgive us, dear lady, ah, do, 

We will blot out those words from our song; 

Though absent, we know thou art true; 
Though jealous, we feel we are wrong. 

Some millions of insects might pass 

In thy rays as those of the sun, 
Then is it not folly to ask 

Thy glances should beam here alone? 
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SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. 

The following is credited to John Ouincv Adams: 

Come bring the cap and bring the bells, 
And banish sullen melancholy, 

For who shall seek for wisdom's cells 
Vvhen Ellen summons him to folly? 

And if 'twere folly to be wise, 

As bards of mighty fame have chanted, 

Whoever looked at Ellen's eyes 

And then for sages' treasures panted? 




Florida White. 

0, take the cap and bells away, 

The very thought my soul confuses. 

Like Jack between two stacks of hay, 
Or Garrick's choice between the Muses. 



Thus Apama, of beauteous renown, 
Made the proudest of monarchs grow meek; 

On her own pretty head placed his crown. 
And then tapped the old king on the cheek. 




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Notes from ]\Ir. Josiah Ouincy's "Figures of the Past:" 

J^^k^r|R. OUINCY'S first party in Washington was at Mrs. 
^Kr m^ Wirt's, where he went in company with Mr. and 
^^ Mrs. Webster, which event he emphasizes "'be- 
F '^l^t' ^5 cause of meeting Mrs. White, a lady whose 
beaut}' was the admiration of Washington and 
whose name was, consequently upon every 
tongue." "^^ '^ * It is said that because of 
some strictures upon her father, General Adair, 
Mrs. White controverted with Andrew Jackson 
some questions about the battle of New Or- 
leans, whereby she was victor. It is perhaps 
the only defeat "Old Hickory" every suffered. 
Five years after the death of Mr. White she was married to Dr. 
Beatty, whom she survived nearly forty years. Of the large estate that she 
possessed when the war began, there were two hundred negroes, whom 
she had taught to read and write. She was an aunt of General Patton 
B. Anderson, of Confederate fame, and of Major Butler P. Anderson, who 
gave his life for his fellow-men in nursing yellow^ fever patients years 
ago at Grenada, Miss. 

There has evidently been no woman so highly honored in American 
history as Mrs. Ellen Adair Beatty, so often quoted by authors two gen- 
erations ago as "Florida White." A remarkable circumstance in her 
career was her reception by the Pope of Rome and his gift of a magnifi- 
cent diamond cross, with which she parted after the war in her liberality 
toward the erection of a Southern Presbyterian church in Washington 
City, of which Rev. Mr. Pitzer has been the pastor since its dedication. 

In Mrs. Ellet's "Court Circles of the Republic'' she reports an enter- 
tainment during John Quincy Adams' administration, in which she re- 
fers to Mrs. White as follows: "There w^as also the wealthy and magnifi- 
cent Florida belle, Mrs. White, with a numerous train of admirers, a 
dozen orange blossoms in her hair, the wild light of the gazelle in her 
dark eyes, and her bust cased in glittering silver, languishing through 
the crowd, who retired to the right and left to permit her to pass. If met, 
said an admirer, walking through an orange grove in Florida, or beside 
a limpid lake amid the eternal spring, she would instantly become an 
object of worship." 

At another time (Jackson's administration): "The lady usually 
called Mrs. 'Florida' White, because her husband. Colonel White, repre- 
sented Florida, was celebrated for magnificent beauty and intellectual 
accomplishments throughout the Gulf States." 



SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. 



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Her part in the war is not given in this appropriate place, but no 
woman in our favored Southland was more loyal and zealous from first 
to last. She and Mrs. James K. Polk were devoted friends. The latter 
was pleased to recall in the later years of their lives the eminence of 
her Presbyterian sister when both were in the prime of young woman- 
hood and conspicuous at Washington. — Confederate Veteran. 




Confederate Monument in Chicago, Decoration Day, 1895. 



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^^UB^ ^RS. LOULIE M. GORDON, ATLANTA, QA. 

^^"^^ MkMi RS. GORDOX is the youngest daughter of a Con- 
federate major, the wife of the youngest captain 
in the Confederate army, and sister-in-law of one 
of the most celebrated of Confederate generals. 
Her husband, Walter S. Gordon, raised and 
commanded a company at fifteen. He was after- 
wards on the staft of General C. A. Evans, who 
was ardently devoted to him, and testifies to his 
"absolute fearlessness, originality, and clear- 
headedness/' The proud wife and daughter of these worthy men says 
she belongs with the Confederates. While she is happy in her Atlanta 





Mrs. I.OUI.IE M. Gordon. 



home with her two young daughters, Lute and Linda, thirteen and eight, 
the mother is so full of life and hope that she has become very promi- 
nent, especially in literary circles. 



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Mrs. Jennie Catherwood Bean. 

our i,ady " of the civ ark county, kentucky, confederate 
veteran association. 



The only epitaph she desires is : " She never forg-ot the Confederate soldiers on 
tented field, behind prison bars, nor under the sod. 




Mrs. Maggie Davis Hayes. 



Born in Washington during the latter part of her father's service as 
secretary of war, she is the eldest daughter, and remembers much of the 
trials of her father during the Confederate struggle. While Mr. Davis 
was in prison, Maggie was with her grandmother, Mrs. Howell, near 
Montreal, Canada, in the convent of the Sacred Heart at school. After 
Mr. Davis' release from prison she was with the family in London, and 
at school in England until she finished her collegiate course. 




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BOUT thirty-one years ago Samuel Davis, a young 
Confederate soldier — but a lad, not out of his teens 
— while on a furlough, seeing his parents in Giles 
county, Tenn., was arrested by Federal troops. 
He had in his possession valuable papers and 
plans which he obviously intended to carry back to 
the Confederates. The information was betrayed to him by a Union sol- 
dier. Young Davis was told he would be released if he would tell who 
gave him the plans; otherwise he would be hanged as a spy. The boy 
refused to give the name of the recreant soldier, and his enemies carried 




Samuel Davis Monument. 



ERECTED BY HIS FATHER. 
230 




Grandson of Jefferson Davis. 



His name was chang-ed by leg-islative enact- 
ment from Jefferson Davis Hayes to Jefferson 
Haves Davis. 



232 SPONSOR SOUVENIR AI^BUM. 

out their threat. He was hanged in the presence of thousands of troops 
and in the sight of weeping people of Pulaski and the vicinity. 

A writer in the Nashville Banner, F. H. Crass, a member of the old 
Rutherford Rifles, says: 

"I can see him standing on the scaffold, about to suffer an ignomin- 
ious death; his piercing dark eyes, full of manly pride, rejecting the offer 
made by a human enemy. Easily could he have given up the secret that 
was buried with him, never to be made known until the final judgment, 
and in so doing could have saved the life that to him, even as he stood 
there facing death, must have held out so many bright promises. He 
gave up kind parents, sisters, brothers, wealth and all and died the greatest 
hero of the grand and bloody drama." 

Here indeed was a strain of courage, a height of virtue human being 
never excelled. There ought to be a monument to the boy in every 
cemetery of our soldier dead. Surely when it was entered upon the Book 
of Life, the recording angel must have kissed the name of Samuel Davis. 
— Huntsville Tribune. 





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Wii,i,iAM Davis Haye;s. 
"I AM A Conf ego rate.'' 



A TOUCHING STORY OF A LITTLE SOUTHERN GIRL. 



She was a tiny maid of three, but she sat upright on the cushioned 
seat of the weh-filled passenger coach with a certain majesty and grace 
that pleased the more thoughtful travelers, w^ho stopped now and then to 
hear her quaint, childish prattle. She was unconscious of any interest 
she had awakened, and told story after story of her home, dolls, playmates, 
and games to the lady with whom she was traveling. Then she grew con- 




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fidential and climbed into her companion's lap, and this gave a place at 
their sides to the gentleman who wished to join them a moment later. 
The tiny bit of precious humanity noticed, in her quick, intelligent, sym- 
pathetic way, that an empty sleeve hung at the gentleman's right side, but 
she looked out of the window, apparently lost in thought. After a while 
she spoke, but her eyes seemed still to regard the passing scene: "My 
farver's faiwer was in the war, and one day when they had a battle he saw 

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ever and ever and ever so many poor men, who had httle chillun at home, 
killed wite there before his eyes; and they was bewied wite there, and 
nobody could tell their names, and their little chillun never could see 
them any more." She never seemed to see the empty sleeve, but the gen- 
tleman was conscious she had done so, and that the dear little mind had 
tenderly grasped the truth, that he was one of those who had been ''in the 
war," and that his arm had been left with the unnamed dead on some bat- 
tle field — maybe the one where her "farver's farver" had fought. As he 
rose to leave the train he kissed the child, and the little one's companion 
saw a tear on his furrowed cheek. Are there angels who gather tears 
such as this for chaplets of pearls in heaven? Then what celestial seas 
of tears from our great war of sacrifice for principle! — Confederate 
Veteran. 



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MISS MARY ELIZABETH CHIPLEY. 

MISS CHARLIE CHIPLEY JONES. MISS MARY ELLISON AIKIN, 

GRANDDAUGHTER GF COLONEL THOS. H. HUNT. 

A GROUP FROM PENSACOI.A, FI,A. 



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COLONEL WILLIAM P. RODQERS. 

IMONG all the great names of Texas heroes around which 
memory delights to linger, not one is more worthy of 
praise than that of Colonel WilHam P. Rodgers, who fell 
in the Confederate charge at the battle of Corinth, Octo- 
ber 4, 1862. 

All civilized people take a delight in perpetuating the name and 
memor}' of their countrvaiien who have achieved greatness, and especially 
of those who have fought and died for others. Colonel W. P. Rodgers 
and those other brave Texans who fell at Corinth have raised for them- 
selves monuments which will last as long as our now forever united re- 
public; in that great effort of war they have secured memorials of them- 
selves which neither the tmkindness of the elements nor the neglect of men 
can either destroy or impair. So far, therefore, the fame of these heroes 
of Corinth is assured ; but it would be only a fitting tribute to their mem- 
ory that a beautiful statue or a towering monument should be erected 
over their graves, so that the name of Rodgers and his comrades of the 
Second Texas may be more frequently on the lips of the coming gen- 
erations. It would be only a just recognition of their valor and a deserved 
token of undying love and comradeship. 

]\lore than three decades have passed since those now lying in 
death's embrace bade adieu to loved ones at home, to flash their maiden 
sw^ords; and how well their work was done, how faithfully every duty 
performed, is attested by the victories they achieved, the defeats they so 
bravely suffered, and the immortality which is theirs. No bosom in 
which beats a Southern heart can fail to swell with pride at thoughts 
of their glorious achievements and their self-sacrificing valor. 'Tn the 
garden of our hearts their fame forever shall endure." 




Coi^oNEi. WiiviviAM p. Rodgers. 
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CONFEDERATE nONUHENT, ALEXANDRIA, VA. 




LL honor to the women and men who close by the 
capital of the nation have erected a superb monu- 
ment to their own Confederate dead at Alexan- 
dria, Va. It is surmounted by a soldier, hat in- 
hand, his arms folded, and standing with his head 
a little drooped, as if he was preparing to make 
another vigorous battle — a battle with conditions which mean the recov- 
ery of fortune, and redemonstrating merit to distinction as a patriot. An 
old paper says: "For all time will Alexandria bear in her heart of 
hearts the manner of these gallant men who, on the 24th day of May, 
1861, left their homes at the call of public duty, for the monument is in- 
scribed with the names of those Alexandrians whose homes never saw^ 
them again, but the hearts of whose fellow-citizens will enshrine them 
forever: 

Yon marble minstrel's voiceless stone 

In deathless song shall tell, 
^Vhen many a vanished year has flown, 

The story how you fell; 
Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter's blight, 

Nor time's remorseless doom. 
Can dim one ray of holy light 

That gilds your glorious tomb. 



"Names of scores who went from Alexandria and never returned are 
engraved. Other inscriptions on the monument are: 'Erected to the 
memory of the Confederate dead of Alexandria, Va., by their sur\™ng 
comrades. May 24, 1889.' On the south face and on the north face the 
words: 'They died in the consciousness of duty well performed.' " 



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Confederate Monument, Ai^exandria, Va. 



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and served in the Confederate Army from 1861 to the close 
of the war. 

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